Systems and methods to optimize utilization of a tablespace for export from a native database recovery environment are described. The system receives a database from a source host, operating in a native database recovery environment, at a backup host operating in a foreign database recovery environment. The foreign database recovery environment utilizes foreign snapshot files and foreign incremental files for storing the database. The system receives a tablespace identifier that identifies a tablespace and a point-in-time that identifies file information for export from the backup host to the source host. The backup host initiates a job to generate script information; create directories; materialize the file information; utilize an auxiliary database to generate tablespace metadata information; and communicate the tablespace metadata information and the script information and the file information, via the directories, and over a network, to the source host, to enable the source host to recover the tablespace.