How to pull single table data from full database backup file.

At some time, you would ask to restore a particular table from a full backup. So you have to follow the below steps.

1. Request backup team to provide the backup
2. Decompress the backup.
3. Move the file to target server.
4. Restore entire backup which take long time based of the volume.
5. Pull particular table backup and provide it to the requestee.

The below single line of bash command will help you to get single table backup which stored into a particular file. Here I’m going to pull the table backup of help_category from a database.

Note : Note : You may need to remember this activity will open a single file, sometime GB file which would harm the entire server resources and not advisable to execute this script on any Production server. Also you may need more CPU/RAM for this activity.