github.com/sijibomii/docker@v0.0.0-20231230191044-5cf6ca554647/man/docker-load.1.md (about) 1 % DOCKER(1) Docker User Manuals 2 % Docker Community 3 % JUNE 2014 4 # NAME 5 docker-load - Load an image from a tar archive or STDIN 6 7 # SYNOPSIS 8 **docker load** 9 [**--help**] 10 [**-i**|**--input**[=*INPUT*]] 11 [**-q**|**--quiet**] 12 13 # DESCRIPTION 14 15 Loads a tarred repository from a file or the standard input stream. 16 Restores both images and tags. 17 18 # OPTIONS 19 **--help** 20 Print usage statement 21 22 **-i**, **--input**="" 23 Read from a tar archive file, instead of STDIN. The tarball may be compressed with gzip, bzip, or xz. 24 25 **-q**, **--quiet** 26 Suppress the load output. Without this option, a progress bar is displayed. 27 28 # EXAMPLES 29 30 $ docker images 31 REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE 32 busybox latest 769b9341d937 7 weeks ago 2.489 MB 33 $ docker load --input fedora.tar 34 $ docker images 35 REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE 36 busybox latest 769b9341d937 7 weeks ago 2.489 MB 37 fedora rawhide 0d20aec6529d 7 weeks ago 387 MB 38 fedora 20 58394af37342 7 weeks ago 385.5 MB 39 fedora heisenbug 58394af37342 7 weeks ago 385.5 MB 40 fedora latest 58394af37342 7 weeks ago 385.5 MB 41 42 # See also 43 **docker-save(1)** to save one or more images to a tar archive (streamed to STDOUT by default). 44 45 # HISTORY 46 April 2014, Originally compiled by William Henry (whenry at redhat dot com) 47 based on docker.com source material and internal work. 48 June 2014, updated by Sven Dowideit <SvenDowideit@home.org.au> 49 July 2015 update by Mary Anthony <mary@docker.com>