command: docker save
short: Save one or more images to a tar archive (streamed to STDOUT by default)
long: |-
  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.
usage: docker save [OPTIONS] IMAGE [IMAGE...]
pname: docker
plink: docker.yaml
options:
- option: output
  shorthand: o
  description: Write to a file, instead of STDOUT
examples: |-
  ### Create a backup that can then be used with `docker load`.

  ```bash
  $ 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
  ```

  ### Cherry-pick particular tags

  You can even cherry-pick particular tags of an image repository.

  ```bash
  $ docker save -o ubuntu.tar ubuntu:lucid ubuntu:saucy
  ```