DOCKER(1)

NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

docker save [-o|--output=""] 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

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

EXAMPLE

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.io source material and internal work.

AUTHORS
William Henry.