Restoration of a Document Library

I currently do backup every week using the following command
stsadm -o export -url http://url -filename d:\moss_site_backup\mybackup.bak -overwrite -includeusersecurity
I was recently requested to do a restoration of a document library from past month (May 14 time frame )
I have backup from each week of May
How do I restore the document lib? I don't want to affect current PRODUCTION Site.
TIA
SV

Hello SV,
What version of sharepoint you are using? Since you have posted in legacy forum so i am assuming you are using 2007 or less. Since granular backup (i.e. import/export) is not available in any legacy edition and there is only one option to take back of list/library
called save list/library as template with 10 MB limitation. It means you can't take backup more than 10 MB.
Codeplex tool is freely available to take granular backup for legacy site:
https://spdeploymentwizard.codeplex.com/
Now one common thing for all editions, you can not filter the content so you have to take the whole library back then delete content from library. Easy way to delete content is open in data sheet view and filter by column.
Hope it could help
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