DataPump Import (IMPDP) Fails With Error ORA-31619 (Doc ID 549750.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.1.0.2 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.
***Checked for relevance on 29-Mar-2016***

Symptoms

Using datapump with a version of the source database newer than the version of target database.

DataPump import is failing with the following errors:

#> impdp accsprec/********* dumpfile=ACCSP_977_978.DMP

Import: Release 10.1.0.3.0 - 64bit Production on Wednesday, 16 January, 2008 11:37

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Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.1.0.3.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options

ORA-39001: invalid argument value
ORA-39000: bad dump file specification
ORA-31619: invalid dump file "/oradata/export/accsp/ACCSP_977_978.DMP"

 

Cause

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