can be done by

expdp

exporting from the database,

importing into the database with

impdp

and of course,

or by

10g

previously

Exp

and

impdp

.

exp

and

imp.

But for machines with large amounts of data and a lot of CPUs

,

expdp

and

impdp

are many times faster.

Physical backups can be backed up and restored with

rman

.

Of course,

if the database is on a filesystem,

it can be backed up and restored directly using operating system commands.