SYNOPSIS

docker load [--help] [-i|--input[=INPUT]] [-q|--quiet]

DESCRIPTION

Loads a tarred repository from a file or the standard input stream. Restores both images and tags.

OPTIONS

--help
  Print usage statement

-i, --input=""
   Read from a tar archive file, instead of STDIN. The tarball may be compressed with gzip, bzip, or xz.

-q, --quiet
   Suppress the load output. Without this option, a progress bar is displayed.

EXAMPLES

$ docker images
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
busybox latest 769b9341d937 7 weeks ago 2.489 MB
$ docker load --input fedora.tar
$ docker images
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
busybox latest 769b9341d937 7 weeks ago 2.489 MB
fedora rawhide 0d20aec6529d 7 weeks ago 387 MB
fedora 20 58394af37342 7 weeks ago 385.5 MB
fedora heisenbug 58394af37342 7 weeks ago 385.5 MB
fedora latest 58394af37342 7 weeks ago 385.5 MB

See also

docker-save(1) to save one or more images to a tar archive (streamed to STDOUT by default).

HISTORY

April 2014, Originally compiled by William Henry (whenry at redhat dot com) based on docker.com source material and internal work. June 2014, updated by Sven Dowideit <[email protected]> July 2015 update by Mary Anthony <[email protected]>