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---
redirect_from:
- /reference/commandline/save/
description: The save command description and usage
keywords:
- tarred, repository, backup
title: docker save
---
```markdown
Usage: docker save [OPTIONS] IMAGE [IMAGE...]
Save one or more images to a tar archive (streamed to STDOUT by default)
Options:
--help Print usage
-o, --output string Write to a file, instead of STDOUT
```
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.
It is used to create a backup that can then be used with `docker load`
$ 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
It is even useful to cherry-pick particular tags of an image repository
$ docker save -o ubuntu.tar ubuntu:lucid ubuntu:saucy