Recovery from bad export file - IMP0009 error

Question

Hi all,
I have a large export that is split into 2Gb chunks using FILESIZE option at export .. string is something like this:
exp userid=xxx/xxx filesize=2048M file=bu${DATE}_01.dmp,bu${DATE}_02.dmp,b
u${DATE}_03.dmp full=y log=bu${DATE}.log
..export log showed no errors but on import I'm getting IMP0009 : abnormal end of export file
Typically there's a rather large and important table that's split between the first and 2nd files which I really need to get at. If I import at the moment it rolls back the first 1.1 million odd rows before it fails and it wont load the 2nd file at all, says something about the sequence of the file being incorrect.
OS is AIX 4.3.3
Oracle is 8.1.7.0.0
Any ideas how I can recover the table that is split accross files? I've tried catting the files together to form one large one (and import on an OS without file system size limits) .. no dice although perhaps I can alter it to fool it into thinking it's 1 file??
Thanks in desparation!
Adam

Answer 1

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Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
Export file created by EXPORT:V08.01.07 via conventional path
import done in WE8MSWIN1252 character set and AL16UTF16 NCHAR character set
export client uses US7ASCII character set (possible charset conversion)
export server uses US7ASCII NCHAR character set (possible ncharset conversion)
IMP-00046: using FILESIZE value from export file of 2147483648
. importing C45966's objects into C45966
"CREATE TABLE "CUST_LEDGER_BALANCE" ("HOUSE" CHAR(6) NOT NULL ENABLE, "CUST""
" CHAR(2) NOT NULL ENABLE, "SERVICE_GROUP" NUMBER(2, 0) NOT NULL ENABLE, "LE"
"DGER_SEQ" NUMBER(10, 0) NOT NULL ENABLE, "LDGRDATE" DATE NOT NULL ENABLE, ""
"STMT_DATE" DATE NOT NULL ENABLE, "LDTYPE" NUMBER(2, 0) NOT NULL ENABLE, "AM"
"OUNT" NUMBER(12, 0) NOT NULL ENABLE, "DECIMAL_CNT" NUMBER(1, 0) NOT NULL EN"
"ABLE, "SUMCODE" CHAR(3) NOT NULL ENABLE, "LEDGER_STATUS" NUMBER(1, 0) NOT N"
"ULL ENABLE, "PROG" NUMBER(3, 0) NOT NULL ENABLE, "PRINT_FLAG" NUMBER(1, 0) "
"NOT NULL ENABLE, "CYCLE_DATE" DATE NOT NULL ENABLE, "DUE_DATE" DATE NOT NUL"
"L ENABLE, "MULTIMONTH_CNT" NUMBER(2, 0), "MULTIMONTH_AMT" NUMBER(12, 0)) P"
"CTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255 LOGGING STORAGE(INITIAL 239796"
"224 NEXT 4194304 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 240 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREE"
"LIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT) TABLESPACE "TBL_CUST_LED_C45966""
. . skipping table "CUST_LEDGER_BALANCE"
IMP-00009: abnormal end of export file
Import terminated successfully with warnings.
..they were transferred in binary mode. Same result if I specify 2048M filesize in import string. Only seems to affect the table that is broken into 2 files, others seem OK.
Thanks!
Adam