Importing from backup

hi everyone,
i took backup and when trying to recover got this error while importing
illegal lob length marker 65279
unrecognized stat in export file

First of all, you should be posting the exact stack of error messages and not your own custom shortcut messages.
I think "illegal lob length marker 65279" is followed by (guessing here) "IMP-00008: unrecognized statement in the export file: " and not "unrecognized *stat* in export file".
This indicates that your dump file itself is corrupt (either during the transfer or some other reason). You will need to re-export the data before attempting the import again.

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