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How to export schema level by using expdp

Posted by Mir Sayeed Hassan on October 9th, 2017

How to export schema level by using expdp

Consider the below example tested in our test env & verified

Create the directory at OS Level to place the backup of the dumpfile

[oracle@testdb backup]$ mkdir db_dump_bkp
[root@testdb backup]# chmod -R 777 db_dump_bkp/

Create the directory at DB Level & assign the directory with OS dir name along with require privileges

SQL> create directory db_dump_bkp as '/backup/db_dump_bkp';
Directory created.
SQL>  grant read,write on directory db_dump_bkp to system;
Grant succeeded.
SQL> grant exp_full_database to system;
Grant succeeded.

SQL> exit

Syntax to export the full db dump

[oracle@testdb db_dump_bkp]$ expdp username/password directory= dumpfile= logfile= schemas=

Example:

[oracle@testdb db_dump_bkp]$ expdp system directory=db_dump_bkp dumpfile=mir_bkp10oct17.dmp logfile=mir_bkp10oct17.log schemas=mir

Export: Release 11.2.0.4.0 - Production on Mon Oct 9 11:51:54 2017
Copyright (c) 1982, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates.  All rights reserved.
Password: *******
Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.4.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
FLASHBACK automatically enabled to preserve database integrity.
Starting "SYSTEM"."SYS_EXPORT_SCHEMA_01":  system/******** directory=db_dump_bkp dumpfile=mir_bkp10oct17.dmp logfile=mir_bkp10oct17.log schemas=mir
Estimate in progress using BLOCKS method...
Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/TABLE/TABLE_DATA
Total estimation using BLOCKS method: 128 KB
Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/USER
Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/SYSTEM_GRANT
Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/ROLE_GRANT
Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/DEFAULT_ROLE
Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/PRE_SCHEMA/PROCACT_SCHEMA
Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/TABLE/TABLE
Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/TABLE/AUDIT_OBJ
Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/TABLE/STATISTICS/TABLE_STATISTICS
. . exported "MIR"."TEST1"                               5.085 KB       5 rows
. . exported "MIR"."TEST2"                               5.070 KB       3 rows
Master table "SYSTEM"."SYS_EXPORT_SCHEMA_01" successfully loaded/unloaded
******************************************************************************
Dump file set for SYSTEM.SYS_EXPORT_SCHEMA_01 is:
/backup/db_dump_bkp/mir_bkp10oct17.dmp
Job "SYSTEM"."SYS_EXPORT_SCHEMA_01" successfully completed at Mon Oct 9 11:52:11 2017 elapsed 0 00:00:13

To verify the dumpfile backup in specified location

[oracle@ogg-test1 db_dump_bkp]$ ls
mir_bkp10oct17.dmp  mir_bkp10oct17.log

Note:

If you want to export multiple schemas to exports use the below syntax

Syntax:

schemas=, ……

Example:
schemas=mir,scott

Hence taken the backup of the schema of database using data pump(expdp)