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% DOCKER(1) Docker User Manuals
% Docker Community
% JUNE 2014
# NAME
docker-load - Load an image from a tar archive or STDIN
# SYNOPSIS
**docker load**
[**--help**]
[**-i**|**--input**[=*INPUT*]]
# DESCRIPTION
Loads a tarred repository from a file or the standard input stream.
Restores both images and tags.
# OPTIONS
**--help**
Print usage statement
**-i**, **--input**=""
Read from a tar archive file, instead of STDIN. The tarball may be compressed with gzip, bzip, or xz.
# EXAMPLES
$ docker images
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
busybox latest 769b9341d937 7 weeks ago 2.489 MB
$ docker load --input fedora.tar
$ docker images
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
busybox latest 769b9341d937 7 weeks ago 2.489 MB
fedora rawhide 0d20aec6529d 7 weeks ago 387 MB
fedora 20 58394af37342 7 weeks ago 385.5 MB
fedora heisenbug 58394af37342 7 weeks ago 385.5 MB
fedora latest 58394af37342 7 weeks ago 385.5 MB
# See also
**docker-save(1)** to save an image(s) to a tar archive (streamed to STDOUT by default).
# 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>
July 2015 update by Mary Anthony <mary@docker.com>