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Connor McDonald

Thanks for the question, Sailesh.

Asked: June 20, 2018 - 9:51 am UTC

Last updated: June 24, 2018 - 11:47 am UTC

Version: 12.1.0.2.0

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Wanted to check if there is some easy way to create a backup of the tables/schema and use some script that will load back the data from the backup file.

I have DBCS access so can run the sh script as well.

Please let me know if there is a simpler way.

Note: Manually exporting the table is a very long process and we have app 30-40 table to take the backup. Even the record size is huge.


Regards
Sailesh.

and Connor said...

Your options would be:

1) datapump

So you can nominate the schemas/tables explicitly. Datapump can usually unload/load pretty large volumes in reasonable time.

2) RMAN

RMAN works at the *physical* level. So in this instance, you would need a means of isolating the objects in question to a particular tablespace, or set of tablespaces (with no *other* objects in there). Then this tablespace could be backed up and restored in isolation with rman. Same logic applies for transportable tablespaces.

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