Restoring select databases/tables from an --all-databases ..

Taken from: Linux Server Hacks
By Rob Flickenger

Here is a method for restoring a single mysql table from a huge
mysqldump

Like a good admin, you faithfully dump your mysql tables every night,
and save them to the filesystem in compressed form (presumably to be
picked up by a backup script later). You probably have something like
this running in cron on your database server (or one of its replicated
slaves):

for x in `mysql -Bse show databases`; do
mysqldump $x | gzip -9 > /var/spool/mysqldump/$x.`date +%Y%m%d`.gz
done


This will cover you if anything catastrophic happens to your live
database. But if your database grows to an appreciable size, doing
partial restores can be difficult. On a database with several million
rows, your dumps suddenly become massive piles of data that need to be
sifted through. How can you easily restore a single table out of a
several hundred megabyte compressed dump?

Here's a simple method using Perl. Create a script called
extract-table, with this in it:

#!/usr/bin/perl -wn
BEGIN { $table = shift @ARGV }
print if /^create table $table\b/io .. /^create table (?!$table)\b/io;


To extract the User table from the dump of a database called randomdb,
try something like this:

# zcat /var/spool/mysqldump/randomdb.20020901.gz | extract-table Users
 > ~/
Users.dump


Now you can restore your Users table with a simple:

# mysql randomdb -e "drop table Users"
# mysql randomdb < ~/Users.dump