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NAME

6       docker-save - Save one or more images to a tar archive (streamed to
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SYNOPSIS

12       docker save [--help] [-o|--output[=OUTPUT]] IMAGE [IMAGE...]
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DESCRIPTION

17       Produces a tarred repository to the standard output stream. Contains
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OPTIONS

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EXAMPLES

36       Save all fedora repository images to a fedora-all.tar and save the
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41              $ docker save --output=fedora-latest.tar fedora:latest
42              $ ls -sh fedora-all.tar
43              721M fedora-all.tar
44              $ ls -sh fedora-latest.tar
45              367M fedora-latest.tar
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See also

51       docker-load(1) to load an image from a tar archive on STDIN.
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HISTORY

56       April 2014, Originally compiled by William Henry (whenry at redhat dot
57       com) based on docker.com source material and internal work.  June 2014,
58       updated by Sven Dowideit ⟨SvenDowideit@home.org.au⟩ November 2014,
59       updated by Sven Dowideit ⟨SvenDowideit@home.org.au⟩
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