NAME

docker-save - Save an image(s) to a tar archive (streamed to STDOUT by default)

SYNOPSIS

docker save [--help] [-o|--output[=OUTPUT]] IMAGE [IMAGE...]

DESCRIPTION

Produces a tarred repository to the standard output stream. Contains all parent layers, and all tags + versions, or specified repo:tag.

Stream to a file instead of STDOUT by using -o.

OPTIONS

--help Print usage statement

-o, --output="" Write to a file, instead of STDOUT

EXAMPLES

Save all fedora repository images to a fedora-all.tar and save the latest fedora image to a fedora-latest.tar:

$ sudo docker save fedora > fedora-all.tar
$ sudo docker save --output=fedora-latest.tar fedora:latest
$ ls -sh fedora-all.tar
721M fedora-all.tar
$ ls -sh fedora-latest.tar
367M fedora-latest.tar

HISTORY

April 2014, Originally compiled by William Henry (whenry at redhat dot com) based on docker.com source material and internal work. June 2014, updated by Sven Dowideit SvenDowideit@home.org.au November 2014, updated by Sven Dowideit SvenDowideit@home.org.au

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