% DOCKER(1) Docker User Manuals % Docker Community % JUNE 2014
docker-save - Save an image(s) to a tar archive (streamed to STDOUT by default)
docker save [--help] [-o|--output[=OUTPUT]] IMAGE [IMAGE...]
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.
--help Print usage statement
-o, --output="" Write to a file, instead of STDOUT
Save all fedora repository images to a fedora-all.tar and save the latest fedora image to a fedora-latest.tar:
$ docker save fedora > fedora-all.tar
$ 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.tardocker-load(1) to load an image from a tar archive on STDIN.
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 [email protected] November 2014, updated by Sven Dowideit [email protected]