nix/doc/manual/src/command-ref/nix-store/import.md

Name

nix-store --import - import Nix Archive into the store

Synopsis

nix-store --import

Description

The operation --import reads a serialisation of a set of store objects produced by nix-store --export from standard input, and adds those store objects to the specified Nix store. Paths that already exist in the target Nix store are ignored. If a path refers to another path that doesn’t exist in the target Nix store, the import fails.

Note

For efficient transfer of closures to remote machines over SSH, use nix-copy-closure.

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