moby/docs/reference/commandline/export.md

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• /reference/commandline/export/ description: The export command description and usage keywords:

• export, file, system, container

  title: docker export

  Usage:  docker export [OPTIONS] CONTAINER
  
  Export a container's filesystem as a tar archive
  
  Options:
    --help            Print usage
  -o, --output string   Write to a file, instead of STDOUT
  

The docker export command does not export the contents of volumes associated with the container. If a volume is mounted on top of an existing directory in the container, docker export will export the contents of the underlying directory, not the contents of the volume.

Refer to Backup, restore, or migrate data volumes in the user guide for examples on exporting data in a volume.

Examples

$ docker export red_panda > latest.tar

Or

$ docker export --output="latest.tar" red_panda