podman-export - Man Page
Export a container's filesystem contents as a tar archive
Synopsis
podman export [options] container
podman container export [options] container
Description
podman export exports the filesystem of a container and saves it as a tarball on the local machine. podman export writes to STDOUT by default and can be redirected to a file using the --output flag. The image of the container exported by podman export can be imported by podman import. To export image(s) with parent layers, use podman save. Note: : is a restricted character and cannot be part of the file name.
podman [GLOBAL Options]
podman export [GLOBAL Options]
podman export [Options] CONTAINER
Options
--help, -h
Print usage statement
--output, -o
Write to a file, default is STDOUT
Examples
Export container into specified tar ball:
$ podman export -o redis-container.tar 883504668ec465463bc0fe7e63d53154ac3b696ea8d7b233748918664ea90e57
Export container to stdout:
$ podman export 883504668ec465463bc0fe7e63d53154ac3b696ea8d7b233748918664ea90e57 > redis-container.tar
See Also
History
August 2017, Originally compiled by Urvashi Mohnani umohnani@redhat.com ⟨mailto:umohnani@redhat.com⟩
Referenced By
podman(1), podman-container(1), podman-import(1), podman-remote(1).
The man pages docker-container-export(1), docker-export(1) and podman-container-export(1) are aliases of podman-export(1).