There are two main approaches.
The first is to export the dump file. This could be using the Datapump utility:
$ expdp apc/pw directory=data_dump_dir dumpfile=apc_20100707.dmp content=METADATA_ONLY
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Datapump was introduced in Oracle10g. In earlier versions of the database, we could use the EXP utility to do the same.
$ exp apc/pw dumpfile=apc_20100707.dmp rows=N
To import a file, we use the appropriate utilities impdp(or imp).
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