The transportable tablespace feature enables you to move a set of tablespaces from one Oracle database to another.
You cannot export transportable tablespaces and then import them into a database at a lower release level. The target database must be at the same or later release level as the source database.
To move or copy a set of tablespaces, you must make the tablespaces read-only, copy the data files of these tablespaces, and use Export and Import to move the database information (metadata) stored in the data dictionary. Both the data files and the metadata export file must be copied to the target database. The transport of these files can be done using any facility for copying flat binary files, such as the operating system copying facility, binary-mode FTP, or publishing on CD-ROMs.
After copying the data files and exporting the metadata, you can optionally put the tablespaces in read/write mode.
Export and Import provide the following parameters to enable movement of transportable tablespace metadata.
TABLESPACES
TRANSPORT_TABLESPACE
See "TABLESPACES" and "TRANSPORT_TABLESPACE" for more information about using these parameters during an export operation.
Oracle Database Administrator's Guide for details about managing transportable tablespaces