command: docker save
short: Save one or more images to a tar archive (streamed to STDOUT by default)
long: |-
  Produces a tarred repository to the standard output stream.
  Contains all parent layers, and all tags + versions, or specified `repo:tag`, for
  each argument provided.
usage: docker save [OPTIONS] IMAGE [IMAGE...]
pname: docker
plink: docker.yaml
options:
- option: output
  shorthand: o
  value_type: string
  description: Write to a file, instead of STDOUT
  deprecated: false
  experimental: false
  experimentalcli: false
  kubernetes: false
  swarm: false
examples: |-
  ### Create a backup that can then be used with `docker load`.

  ```bash
  $ docker save busybox > busybox.tar

  $ ls -sh busybox.tar

  2.7M busybox.tar

  $ docker save --output busybox.tar busybox

  $ ls -sh busybox.tar

  2.7M busybox.tar

  $ docker save -o fedora-all.tar fedora

  $ docker save -o fedora-latest.tar fedora:latest
  ```

  ### Save an image to a tar.gz file using gzip

  You can use gzip to save the image file and make the backup smaller.

  ```bash
  docker save myimage:latest | gzip > myimage_latest.tar.gz
  ```

  ### Cherry-pick particular tags

  You can even cherry-pick particular tags of an image repository.

  ```bash
  $ docker save -o ubuntu.tar ubuntu:lucid ubuntu:saucy
  ```
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false

