Thanks to everyone for their super-fast replies. I was overwhelmed. Mr. (Tom) Roach cheated though, he called and then IM'd me the answer. Essentially, I had it backwards. remap_tablespace=USERS:TABLESPACE_1,USERS_TABLESPACE_2,etc. should have been: remap_tablespace=TABLESPACE_1:USERS,TABLESPACE_2:USERS,TABLESPACE_3:USERS What I didn't explain and Neil alluded to, is that I was trying to map all of the production tablespaces to a single USERS tablespace (it's a sandbox, don't give me a hard time ;). Thanks again. chet On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:56 PM, neil kodner <nkodner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > you can have multiple REMAP_TABLESPACE clauses in your par file. you ARE > using a par file aren't you? I have a routine expdp/imp where i remap about > a dozen prod tablespaces into a single test tablespace. > > > On Sep 17, 2009, at 1:45 PM, chet justice wrote: > > Database: 10.2.0.3 > DP: 10.2.0.1 > > I've received a datapump export of our production database (objects only) > so that I can test my migration script. > > On first go, none of the tables were created because the requisite > tablespaces did not exist in my sandbox. > > Via the docs, I found the > REMAP_TABLESPACE<http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14215/dp_import.htm#sthref342>parameter > which seemed to suit my needs. > > The command line looked like this: > > c:\temp>impdb cjustice/testing@testing dumpfile=prod.dmp > remap_tablespace=USERS:TABLESPACE_1,USERS_TABLESPACE_2,etc. > > I received the following error: > > Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - > Production > With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options > ORA-39001: invalid argument value > ORA-39046: Metadata remap REMAP_TABLESPACE has already been specified. > > I also tried with semi-colons (;) and spaces as delimiters between the > multiple tablespaces, each time receiving the error above. > > Would someone tell me how to use this particular piece of functionality or > point me in the right direction? > > Thanks > > chet > > -- > chet justice > http://oraclenerd.com > http://twitter.com/oraclenerd > > > -- chet justice http://oraclenerd.com http://twitter.com/oraclenerd