Hi,

I have performed the tar backup in my linuxbox by using the command


tar -cvpzf ring.tar.gz /m01/fordb/sql


The ring.tar.gz is stored in /m01


Now i need to restore the particular directory sql into the /m01/fordb/

where i have deleted the sql directory


can any one help me pls

Include the path for the sql directory backed up as an argument to the tar command. Only the sql directory will be backed up. Either cd to the same directory where you ran tar from originally (the base directory) or use the -C <base_directory> argument.
tar -C / -xvzf /path/to/ring.tar.gz /m01/fordb/sql

The example you gave, you are extracting the entire contents of the backup you made. If you had backed up /m01/fordb/* you could restore just the /m01/fordb/sql directory alone with the above command. Cd'ing to / and extracting without a directory argument would do the same thing in this particular case.

Thanks,

If i need to take tar backup of only the sql folder from the following path /m01/fordb/sql into the location /m01

What is the command needed

tar --extract --file=TAR_ARCH.tar.gz PATHtoTHEfolder_to_extract inside the tar