podman-save(1)

NAME

podman-save - Save an image to a container archive

SYNOPSIS

podman save [options] name[:tag]

podman image save [options] name[:tag]

DESCRIPTION

podman save saves an image to either docker-archive, oci-archive, oci-dir (directory with oci manifest type), or docker-dir (directory with v2s2 manifest type) on the local machine, default is docker-archive. 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. 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 when using the dir transport i.e --format=oci-dir or --format-docker-dir

--output, -o=file

Write to a file, default is STDOUT

--format=format

Save image to oci-archive, oci-dir (directory with oci manifest type), or docker-dir (directory with v2s2 manifest type)

    --format oci-archive
    --format oci-dir
    --format docker-dir

--quiet, -q

Suppress the output

--help, -h

Print usage statement

EXAMPLES

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

    $ podman save > alpine-all.tar alpine

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

    $ podman save --compress --format oci-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

    $ podman save --format docker-dir -o ubuntu-dir ubuntu
    Getting image source signatures
    Copying blob sha256:660c48dd555dcbfdfe19c80a30f557ac57a15f595250e67bfad1e5663c1725bb
     45.55 MB / 45.55 MB [======================================================] 8s
    Copying blob sha256:4c7380416e7816a5ab1f840482c9c3ca8de58c6f3ee7f95e55ad299abbfe599f
     846 B / 846 B [============================================================] 0s
    Copying blob sha256:421e436b5f80d876128b74139531693be9b4e59e4f1081c9a3c379c95094e375
     620 B / 620 B [============================================================] 0s
    Copying blob sha256:e4ce6c3651b3a090bb43688f512f687ea6e3e533132bcbc4a83fb97e7046cea3
     849 B / 849 B [============================================================] 0s
    Copying blob sha256:be588e74bd348ce48bb7161350f4b9d783c331f37a853a80b0b4abc0a33c569e
     169 B / 169 B [============================================================] 0s
    Copying config sha256:20c44cd7596ff4807aef84273c99588d22749e2a7e15a7545ac96347baa65eda
     3.53 KB / 3.53 KB [========================================================] 0s
    Writing manifest to image destination
    Storing signatures

SEE ALSO

podman(1), podman-load(1)

HISTORY

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