% DOCKER(1) Docker User Manuals % Docker Community % JUNE 2014 # 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: $ 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.tar # See also **docker-load(1)** to load an image from a tar archive on STDIN. # 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>