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podman-save

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
--compress
--format=format
--help, -h
--multi-image-archive, -m
--output, -o=file
--quiet, -q
--uncompressed
EXAMPLES
SEE ALSO
HISTORY

NAME

podman-save - Save image(s) to an archive

SYNOPSIS

podman save [ options ] name [: tag ]

podman image save [ options ] name [: tag ]

DESCRIPTION

podman save saves an image to a local file or directory. podman save writes to STDOUT by default and can be redirected to a file using the output flag. The quiet flag suppresses the output when set. podman save saves parent layers of the image(s) and the image(s) can be loaded using podman load . To export the containers, use the podman export . Note: : is a restricted character and cannot be part of the file name.

podman [GLOBAL OPTIONS]

podman save [GLOBAL OPTIONS]

podman save [OPTIONS] NAME[:TAG]

OPTIONS

--compress

Compress tarball image layers when pushing to a directory using the ’dir’ transport. (default is same compression type, compressed or uncompressed, as source)

Note: This flag can only be set with --format=docker-dir .

--format=format

An image format to produce, one of:

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--help, -h

Print usage statement

--multi-image-archive, -m

Allow for creating archives with more than one image. Additional names are interpreted as images instead of tags. Only supported for --format=docker-archive . The default for this option can be modified via the multi_image_archive="true"|"false" flag in containers.conf.

--output, -o=file

Write to a file, default is STDOUT

--quiet, -q

Suppress the output

--uncompressed

Accept uncompressed layers when using one of the OCI formats.

EXAMPLES

Save image to a local file without displaying progress.

$ podman save --quiet -o alpine.tar alpine:2.6

Save image to stdout and redirect content via shell.

$ podman save alpine > alpine-all.tar

Save image in oci-archive format to the local file.

$ podman save -o oci-alpine.tar --format oci-archive alpine

Save image compressed in docker-dir format.

$ podman save --compress --format docker-dir -o alp-dir alpine
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob sha256:2fdfe1cd78c20d05774f0919be19bc1a3e4729bce219968e4188e7e0f1af679d
1.97 MB / 1.97 MB [========================================================] 0s
Copying config sha256:501d1a8f0487e93128df34ea349795bc324d5e0c0d5112e08386a9dfaff620be
584 B / 584 B [============================================================] 0s
Writing manifest to image destination
Storing signatures

SEE ALSO

podman(1) , podman-load(1) , containers.conf(5) , containers-transports(5)

HISTORY

July 2017, Originally compiled by Urvashi Mohnani umohnani@redhat.com ⟨ mailto:umohnani@redhat.com⟩