Hi Sanjay >I tried include=job but got an error > >Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - >64bit Production >With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options >Starting "SMR5"."SYS_EXPORT_SCHEMA_01": smr5/******** >dumpfile=datapump_dir:jobs.dmp include=job >logfile=datapump_dir:jobs.log >Estimate in progress using BLOCKS method... >Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/TABLE/TABLE_DATA >Total estimation using BLOCKS method: 0 KB >ORA-39168: Object path JOB was not found. >ORA-31655: no data or metadata objects selected for job >Job "SMR5"."SYS_EXPORT_SCHEMA_01" completed with 2 error(s) at 10:26:22 You can select the available paths from the DD view DATAPUMP_PATHS. HTH Chris New Features Oracle Database 10g Release 2 seminars @ www.trivadis.com Italiano: Lugano (24-Nov) Français: Genève (17-Nov) Deutsch: Zürich (29-Nov), Stuttgart (13-Dec) -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l