Summary
You are trying to attach a data pump job running but you get the error:
UDI-00052: incorrect Data Pump client for operation: EXPORT
for example is running
expdp system/**** FULL=y DIRECTORY=datapump DUMPFILE=full%U.dmp LOGFILE=full.log
and trying to attach
SQL> SELECT * FROM DBA_DATAPUMP_JOBS;
OWNER_NAME JOB_NAME OPERATION JOB_MODE STATE
------------------------------ ----------------- ---------- -------
SYSTEM SYS_EXPORT_FULL_01 EXPORT FULL EXECUTING
$ impdp system/**** attach=SYS_EXPORT_FULL_01
Import: Release 11.2.0.3.0 - Production on Tue Jun 19 22:40:41 2012
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Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options
UDI-00052: incorrect Data Pump client for operation: EXPORT
BE CAREFUL!!! you are running an EXPORT (expdp), you cannot attach with IMPORT(impdp) the export job!
Obvious the right command is :
expdp system/**** attach=SYS_EXPORT_FULL_01