I run:

exp USERID=sys/<....>@avl owner=(avlsys,avlgeo, mdsys) FILE=avl.dmp ROWS=YES GRANTS=N 1>backup_avl.log 2>&1

and get:

Export: Release 8.1.6.0.0 - Production on Thu Dec 21 10:35:17 2000

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Connected to: Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.6.1.0 - Production
With the Partitioning option
JServer Release 8.1.6.0.0 - Production
Export done in WE8ISO8859P1 character set and WE8ISO8859P1 NCHAR character set
Note: grants on tables/views/sequences/roles will not be exported

About to export specified users ...
EXP-00010: MDSYS is not a valid username

Enyone can help/comment? (MDSYS is schema of spatial data objects, abbrev. SDO)

Thank you