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How to export schema with Parallel method by using expdp

Posted by Mir Sayeed Hassan on October 13th, 2018

How to export schema with Parallel method by using expdp

[oracle@testdb dump_bkp]$ expdp system directory=dump_bkp dumpfile=expdp%U-`date '+%d%m%Y_%H%M%S'`.dmp logfile=expdp-`date '+%d%m%Y_%H%M%S'`.log schemas=mir PARALLEL=2

Export: Release 11.2.0.4.0 - Production on Sat Oct 13 15:25:00 2018

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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=dump_bkp dumpfile=expdp%U-13102018_152500.dmp logfile=expdp-13102018_152500.log schemas=mir PARALLEL=2
 Estimate in progress using BLOCKS method...
 Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/TABLE/TABLE_DATA
 Total estimation using BLOCKS method: 192 KB
 . . exported "MIR"."T1" 5.093 KB 7 rows
 . . exported "MIR"."T2" 5.085 KB 6 rows
 . . exported "MIR"."T3" 5.078 KB 5 rows
 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
 Master table "SYSTEM"."SYS_EXPORT_SCHEMA_01" successfully loaded/unloaded
 ******************************************************************************
 Dump file set for SYSTEM.SYS_EXPORT_SCHEMA_01 is:
 /backup/dump_bkp/expdp01-13102018_152500.dmp
 /backup/dump_bkp/expdp02-13102018_152500.dmp
 Job "SYSTEM"."SYS_EXPORT_SCHEMA_01" successfully completed at Sat Oct 13 15:25:06 2018 elapsed 0 00:00:03
[oracle@testdb dump_bkp]$ pwd
 /backup/dump_bkp
[oracle@testdb dump_bkp]$ ls
 expdp01-13102018_152500.dmp expdp02-13102018_152500.dmp expdp-13102018_152500.log

Note:
As you can see there are multiple files are created like – expdp01 & expdp02 & time consumption will be faster by using parallel option compare to normal

================Hence tested & verified in our test env================