Shows the steps to export data from your database to Object Storage with Oracle Data Pump.

1. Connect to your database.
2. Store your Cloud Object Storage credential using DBMS_CLOUD.CREATE_CREDENTIAL. For example:

   BEGIN
     DBMS_CLOUD.CREATE_CREDENTIAL(
       credential_name => 'DEF_CRED_NAME',
       username => 'user1@example.com',
       password => 'password'
     );
   END;
   /

   The values you provide for username and password depend on the Cloud Object Storage service you are using.

   If you are exporting to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage, you can use the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure native URIs or Swift URIs, but the credentials must be auth tokens. See CREATE_CREDENTIAL Procedure for more information.

3. Run Data Pump Export with the dumpfile parameter set to the URL for an existing bucket on your Cloud Object Storage, ending with a file name or a file name with a substitution variable, such as exp%L.dmp, and with the credential parameter set to the name of the credential you created in the previous step. For example:

   expdp admin/password@db2022adb_high \
        filesize=5GB \
        credential=def_cred_name \
        dumpfile=https://namespace-string.objectstorage.us-ashburn-1.oci.customer-oci.com/n/namespace-string/b/bucketname/o/exp%L.dmp \
        parallel=16 \
        encryption_pwd_prompt=yes \
        logfile=export.log \
        directory=data_pump_dir
   

   Notes for Oracle Data Pump parameters:

   • If during the export with expdp you used the encryption_pwd_prompt=yes parameter then use encryption_pwd_prompt=yes and input the same password at the impdp prompt that you specified during the export.

   • The dumpfile parameter supports the %L and %l wildcards in addition to the legacy %U and %u wildcards. For example, dumpfile=export%L.dmp. Use the %L or %l wildcard for exports from Oracle Database Release 12.2 and higher. This wildcard expands the dumpfile file name into a 3-digit to 10-digit, variable-width incrementing integer, starting at 100 and ending at 2147483646.

   • If your bucket and data do not reside in a commercial (OC1) realm, where OCI Dedicated Endpoints are not supported, use the following URI format for dumpfile:

     https://objectstorage.region.oraclecloud.com/n/namespace-string/b/bucketname/o/filename

   For dumpfile, this example uses the recommended URI format using OCI Dedicated Endpoints for commercial realm (OC1). The namespace-string is the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure object storage namespace and bucketname is the bucket name. See Object Storage Dedicated Endpoints, Regions and Availability Domains, and Understanding Object Storage Namespaces for more information.

   The credential parameter cannot be an OCI resource principal, Azure service principal, Amazon Resource Name (ARN), or a Google service account. See Accessing Cloud Resources by Configuring Policies and Roles for more information on resource principal based authentication.

   For the best export performance use the HIGH database service for your export connection and set the parallel parameter to one quarter the number of ECPUs (.25 x ECPU count). If you are using OCPU compute model, set the parallel parameter to the number of OCPUs (1 x OCPU count).

   For information on which database service name to connect to run Data Pump Export, see Database Service Names for Autonomous Database.

   For the dump file URL format for different Cloud Object Storage services, see DBMS_CLOUD URI Formats.

   This example shows the recommended parameters for exporting from Autonomous Database. For these expdp parameters, note the following:

   • The maximum filesize parameter value is 10000MB for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage exports.

   • The maximum filesize parameter value is 20GB for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage Classic exports.

   • If the specified filesize is too large, the export shows the error message:

     ORA-17500: ODM err:ODM HTTP Request Entity Too Large

   • The directory parameter specifies the directory data_pump_dir for the specified log file, export.log. See Access Log Files for Data Pump Export for more information.

   Oracle Data Pump divides each dump file part into smaller chunks for faster uploads. The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage console shows multiple files for each dump file part that you export. The size of the actual dump files will be displayed as zero (0) and its related file chunks as 10mb or less. For example:

   exp100.dmp
   exp100.dmp_aaaaaa
   exp101.dmp
   exp101.dmp_aaaaaa

   Downloading the zero byte dump file from the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure console or using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure CLI will not give you the full dump files. To download the full dump files from the Object Store, use a tool that supports Swift such as curl, and provide your user login and Swift auth token. For example:

   curl -O -v -X GET -u 'user1@example.com:auth_token' \
      https://swiftobjectstorage.us-ashburn-1.oraclecloud.com/v1/namespace-string/bucketname/exp100.dmp

   If you import a file with the DBMS_CLOUD procedures that support the format parameter type with the value 'datapump', you only need to provide the primary file name. The procedures that support the 'datapump' format type automatically discover and download the chunks.

   When you use DBMS_CLOUD.DELETE_OBJECT, the procedure automatically discovers and deletes the chunks when the procedure deletes the primary file.

4. Perform the required steps to use Oracle Data Pump import and clean up.

   See Download Dump Files, Run Data Pump Import, and Clean Up Object Store for details.