NAME

       podman-image-scp - Securely copy an image from one host to another

SYNOPSIS

       podman image scp [options] name[:tag]

DESCRIPTION

       podman image scp copies container images between hosts on a network. This command can copy
       images to the remote host or from the remote host as well as  between  two  remote  hosts.
       Note:  ::  is  used  to  specify  the image name depending on Podman is saving or loading.
       Images can also be transferred from rootful  to  rootless  storage  on  the  same  machine
       without  using sshd. This feature is not supported on the remote client, including Mac and
       Windows (excluding WSL2) machines.

       podman image scp [GLOBAL OPTIONS]

       podman image scp [OPTIONS] NAME[:TAG] [HOSTNAME::]

       podman image scp [OPTIONS] [HOSTNAME::]IMAGENAME

       podman image scp [OPTIONS] [HOSTNAME::]IMAGENAME [HOSTNAME::]

OPTIONS

   --help, -h
       Print usage statement

   --quiet, -q
       Suppress the output

EXAMPLES

       $ podman image scp alpine
       Loaded image: docker.io/library/alpine:latest

       $ podman image scp alpine Fedora::/home/charliedoern/Documents/alpine
       Getting image source signatures
       Copying blob 72e830a4dff5 done
       Copying config 85f9dc67c7 done
       Writing manifest to image destination
       Storing signatures
       Loaded image: docker.io/library/alpine:latest

       $ podman image scp Fedora::alpine RHEL::
       Loaded image: docker.io/library/alpine:latest

       $ podman image scp charliedoern@192.168.68.126:22/run/user/1000/podman/podman.sock::alpine
       WARN[0000] Unknown connection name given. Please use system connection add to specify the default remote socket location
       Getting image source signatures
       Copying blob 9450ef9feb15 [--------------------------------------] 0.0b / 0.0b
       Copying config 1f97f0559c done
       Writing manifest to image destination
       Storing signatures
       Loaded image: docker.io/library/alpine:latest

       $ sudo podman image scp root@localhost::alpine username@localhost::
       Copying blob e2eb06d8af82 done
       Copying config 696d33ca15 done
       Writing manifest to image destination
       Storing signatures
       Getting image source signatures
       Copying blob 5eb901baf107 skipped: already exists
       Copying config 696d33ca15 done
       Writing manifest to image destination
       Storing signatures
       Loaded image: docker.io/library/alpine:latest

       $ sudo podman image scp root@localhost::alpine
       Copying blob e2eb06d8af82 done
       Copying config 696d33ca15 done
       Writing manifest to image destination
       Storing signatures
       Getting image source signatures
       Copying blob 5eb901baf107
       Copying config 696d33ca15 done
       Writing manifest to image destination
       Storing signatures
       Loaded image: docker.io/library/alpine:latest

SEE ALSO

       podman(1),  podman-load(1),  podman-save(1),  podman-remote(1),  podman-system-connection-
       add(1), containers.conf(5), containers-transports(5)

HISTORY

       July     2021,     Originally     written     by     Charlie    Doern    cdoern@redhat.com
       ⟨mailto:cdoern@redhat.com⟩

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