diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index cd09b0b..063a7e7 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -40,3 +40,13 @@ dist/
 *.suo
 *.user
 
+*.gz
+*.xz
+*.tar
+*.zip
+*.rar
+*.7z
+*.bak
+
+
+
diff --git a/Justfile b/Justfile
index 797473e..86fbfb5 100644
--- a/Justfile
+++ b/Justfile
@@ -12,6 +12,14 @@ start-release: build-container-release remove-podman-containers
 remove-podman-containers:
     podman container rm -f ttime
 
+# Saves the release container to a tarball, pigz is just gzip but multithreaded
+save-release: build-container-release
+    podman save --format=oci-archive ttime-server | pigz -9 > ttime-server-pigz.tar.gz
+
+# Loads the release container from a tarball
+load-release file:
+    podman load --input {{file}}
+
 # Cleans up everything related to the project
 clean: remove-podman-containers
     podman image rm -f ttime-server