| % DOCKER(1) Docker User Manuals |
| % Docker Community |
| % JUNE 2014 |
| # NAME |
| docker-save - Save an image to a tar archive (streamed to STDOUT by default) |
| |
| # SYNOPSIS |
| **docker save** |
| [**-o**|**--output**[=*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 |
| |
| # 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> |