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title: "save"
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description: "The save command description and usage"
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keywords: "tarred, repository, backup"
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---
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# save
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```markdown
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Usage: docker save [OPTIONS] IMAGE [IMAGE...]
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Save one or more images to a tar archive (streamed to STDOUT by default)
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Options:
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--help Print usage
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-o, --output string Write to a file, instead of STDOUT
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```
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## Description
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Produces a tarred repository to the standard output stream.
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Contains all parent layers, and all tags + versions, or specified `repo:tag`, for
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each argument provided.
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## Examples
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### Create a backup that can then be used with `docker load`.
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```bash
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$ docker save busybox > busybox.tar
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$ ls -sh busybox.tar
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2.7M busybox.tar
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$ docker save --output busybox.tar busybox
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$ ls -sh busybox.tar
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2.7M busybox.tar
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$ docker save -o fedora-all.tar fedora
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$ docker save -o fedora-latest.tar fedora:latest
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```
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### Save an image to a tar.gz file using gzip
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You can use gzip to save the image file and make the backup smaller.
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```bash
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docker save myimage:latest | gzip > myimage_latest.tar.gz
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```
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### Cherry-pick particular tags
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You can even cherry-pick particular tags of an image repository.
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```bash
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$ docker save -o ubuntu.tar ubuntu:lucid ubuntu:saucy
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```
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