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% 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>