podman-save(1)

NAME
podman-save - Save image(s) to an archive or directory

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 save operates on images: the resulting archive (OCI or docker-archive) preserves the image's layers, history and tags, and is restored as the same image with podman load. This is different from podman export, which flattens a container's filesystem into a single-layer tarball with no image history. To capture a container's filesystem instead, see podman-export(1).

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:
Format | Description
docker-archive | A tar archive interoperable with docker load(1) (the default)
oci-archive | A tar archive using the OCI Image Format
oci-dir | A directory using the OCI Image Format
docker-dir | dir transport (see containers-transports(5)) with v2s2 manifest type

Note: oci-dir and docker-dir cannot be loaded with podman load on Podman remote clients (including macOS and Windows, excluding WSL2)

  --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⟩