Question

How would I go about creating a database from a dump file? I do not have an existing database with the same structure on my system so it has to be complete with jobs, events, tables, and so on.

I placed the dump and log file in E: drive

I have tried the import utility

E:/>impdp system/tiger@oratest FILE=WB_PROD_FULL_20MAY11.dmp

But I’m getting error as

invalid argument value
bad dump file specification
unable to open dump file "E:\app\admin\oratest\dpdump\WB_PROD_F
ULL_20MAY11.dmp" for read
unable to open file
unable to open file
(OS 2) The system cannot find the file specified.

And when I see in Windows Explorer DMP file(taken from Linux server) is showing as Crash dump file

I don’t understand how I can resolve this issue. Please help me to solve this issue.

I’m a complete newbie on Oracle…

Answer 1

How was the database exported?

• If it was exported using exp and a full schema was exported, then

  1. Create the user:

     create user <username> identified by <password> default tablespace <tablespacename> quota unlimited on <tablespacename>;
     

  2. Grant the rights:

     grant connect, create session, imp_full_database to <username>;
     

  3. Start the import with imp:

     imp <username>/<password>@<hostname> file=<filename>.dmp log=<filename>.log full=y;
     

• If it was exported using expdp, then start the import with impdp:

  impdp <username>/<password> directory=<directoryname> dumpfile=<filename>.dmp logfile=<filename>.log full=y;
  

Looking at the error log, it seems you have not specified the directory, so Oracle tries to find the dmp file in the default directory (i.e., E:\app\Vensi\admin\oratest\dpdump\).

Either move the export file to the above path or create a directory object to pointing to the path where the dmp file is present and pass the object name to the impdp command above.