Untar backup and restore files?

[asmar]

Hi all,

I've got a VM LXC in *.tar.lzo format backup. I want to extract a particular domain/files from it.
Is there somehow a way to extract the whole contents in the normal filesystem and then look for those I want?

An alternative will be to restore the whole VM but with a different id as the existing one I don't want to overwrite.

Any help is much appreciated.

 

[dcsapak]

yes, just use tar
see
man tar

 

[asmar]

Thanks Dominik, I wasn't aware that is a simple tar.