To copy an image from a registry to a local directory: skopeo copy docker://docker.io/library/nginx:latest dir:/path/to/target_dir Best Practices for Manual Downloads
Downloading a large image once and distributing it via LAN or USB saves significant data.
When saving images, you can pipe the output to gzip to significantly reduce file size: docker save nginx:latest | gzip > nginx_latest.tar.gz
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Docker will output the loaded layers and confirm the image name and tag. You can verify it is ready by running docker images . Step 3: Downloading Without the Docker Daemon