How to expdp table with a BLOB field when table is larger than UNDO tbs?

Question

We have a 4-node RAC instance and are at 11.1. We have a 100 gig schema with a few hundred tables. One table contains about 80 gig of data. the table has pictures in it (BLOB column). Our 4 node RAC has 4 12 gig undo tablespaces.
We run out of undo when export a schema or just this table due to the size of the table.
According to metalink note ID 1086414.1 this can happen on fragmented tables. According to segment advisor, we are all good and not fragmented at all.
I also followed the troubleshooting advice in ID 833635.1 and ID 846079.1, but everything turned out ok.
LOBs and ORA-01555 troubleshooting [ID 846079.1]
Export Fails With ORA-02354 ORA-01555 ORA-22924 and How To Confirm LOB Segment Corruption Using Export Utility? [ID 833635.1]
initially we tried just to export it without special parameters.
expdp MY_SCHEMA/********@RACINSTANC DUMPFILE=MYFILE.dmp PARALLEL=8 directory=DATA_PUMP_DIR SCHEMAS=MY_SCHEMA
ORA-31693: Table data object "MY_SCHEMA"."BIGLOBTABLE" failed to load/unload and is being skipped due to error:
ORA-02354: error in exporting/importing data
ORA-01555: snapshot too old: rollback segment number 71 with name "_SYSSMU71_1268406335$" too small
then tried to export just the table into 8 files of 8G each (the failing table is about 90% of the schema size)
expdp MY_SCHEMA/******@RACINSTANCE DUMPFILE=MYFILE_%U.dmp PARALLEL=8 FILESIZE=8G directory=DATA_PUMP_DIR INCLUDE=TABLE:\"IN ('BIGLOBTABLE') \"
ORA-31693: Table data object "MY_SCHEMA"."BIGLOBTABLE" failed to load/unload and is being skipped due to error:
ORA-02354: error in exporting/importing data
ORA-01555: snapshot too old: rollback segment number 71 with name "_SYSSMU71_1268406335$" too small
We eventually resorted to exporting chunks out of the table by using the QUERY parameter
QUERY=BIGLOBTABLE:"WHERE BIGLOBTABLEPK > 1 AND BIGLOBTABLEPK <=100000"
and that worked but it is a kludge.
Since we will have to export this again down the road I was wondering if there is an easier way to export.
Any suggestions are appreciated.

Answer 1

Note that undo data for LOB is not stored in UNDO tablespace but in LOB segments. So I am not sure ORA-1555 is directly linked to LOB data.
What is your undo_retention parameter ?
How long does EXPDP run before getting ORA-1555 ?
You could try to increase undo_retention parameter to avoid ORA-1555.
Are you running Entreprise Edition ? If yes, trying to transport the tablespace storing the table could be a solution.