- 08 Nov, 2021
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ORA-39070: Unable to open the log file.
ORA-39070: Unable to open the log file.
I got “ORA-39070: Unable to open the log file. ” error in Oracle database.
Details of error are as follows.
#> expdp ankush/thavali directory=datapump_dir dumpfile=full.dmp full=y logfile=full.log Copyright (c) 2003, 2017, Oracle. All rights reserved. ORA-39002: invalid operation ORA-39070: Unable to open the log file. ORA-29283: invalid file operation ORA-06512: at "SYS.UTL_FILE", line 488 ORA-29283: invalid file operation
Unable to open the log file
This ORA-39070 errors are related with the directory object and granted read/write access to the directory.
Make sure that the /export/dump directory has 660 permission.
To solve this error, create or replace your directory and grant the following priviliges to user.
create directory datapump_dir as '/export/dump'; grant read,write on directory datapump_dir to ankush; grant datapump_exp_full_database to ankush; grant datapump_imp_full_database to ankush;
Then now try to execute expdp command, it will work fine.
If you got this error on the Windows system, Follow the next steps to progress this issue:
1. Run expdp using the following steps:
a. Using Windows Explorer create a new directory in D drive called
b. Check with the Windows Explorer that the directory d:\ exists at OS level
c. From cmd window set ORACLE_SID= and within a sqlplus session execute:
connect / as sysdba SQL> create or replace directory <directory_name> as 'd:\<OS_directory_name>'; SQL> grant read,write on directory <directory_name> to system;
2. Execute the datapump export dump using the following command:
set ORACLE_SID=<SID of your database> expdp system/<password> directory=<directory_name> dumpfile=<dump_name>.dmp full=y content=metadata_only logfile=<log_name>.log