My Oracle Support Banner

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

Last updated on MAY 08, 2020

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.1.0.2 and later
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Gen 1 Exadata Cloud at Customer (Oracle Exadata Database Cloud Machine) - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

DataPump import is failing with the following errors:

#> impdp <User>/<Password> dumpfile=<File Name>.dmp

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

Copyright (c) 2003, Oracle. All rights reserved.

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 "/<PATH>/<File Nema>.dmp"

The dump file <File Name>.dmp was created with the source database's version, which is newer than the target database's version.

Cause

To view full details, sign in with your My Oracle Support account.

Don't have a My Oracle Support account? Click to get started!

In this Document
Symptoms
Cause
Solution
References

My Oracle Support provides customers with access to over a million knowledge articles and a vibrant support community of peers and Oracle experts.