# Offline Updates Without USB Stick

**URL:** <https://forums.balena.io/t/offline-updates-without-usb-stick/374347>\
**Category:** Product support\
**Tags:** support\
**Created:** [May 29, 2025, 12:53am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/offline-updates-without-usb-stick/374347 "2025-05-29T00:53:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![randyk98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecb155/32.png) [@randyk98](https://forums.balena.io/u/randyk98)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2025, 12:53am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/offline-updates-without-usb-stick/374347/1 "2025-05-29T00:53:51Z")

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Hi everyone,

For reasons beyond our control, we have use-cases where we must perform an offline update (no internet on source or target device) without access to the USB port, but rather through a local Wi-Fi network connection.

**Background Info:**

Using an IoT Gateway 8 with a `balena-cloud-TestFleet-iot-gate-imx8-6.5.34+rev7-v17.0.3.img` development image. The device has local mode enabled.

**What I’ve Tried:**

1. Balena Deploy : Doesn’t work without internet as it requires a login.
2. Balena Push : I receive the error below even though I have the image locally.
3. Balena SSH : This would in principal allow me to pull a compressed archive that has all my images, load them with Balena, and then run the containers, but this involves many manual steps and I don’t know if the containers would just get wiped afterwards.

**Balena Push Error:**

```auto
PS C:\Users\serveradmin\Downloads\balena> balena push 192.168.137.104
[Info] Starting build on device 192.168.137.104
[Info] Converting line endings CRLF -> LF for file: C:\Users\serveradmin\Downloads\balena\docker-compose.yml
Some services failed to build:
        nginx: (HTTP code 404) unexpected - manifest for nginx:4.4.0 not found: manifest unknown: manifest unknown

cat docker-compose.yml
version: "2.4"
services:
  nginx:
    container_name: nginx
    hostname: nginx
    image: nginx:4.4.0
    network_mode: host
    restart: always

PS C:\Users\serveradmin\Downloads\balena> docker images
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
nginx 4.4.0 fb76f0a364f9 7 hours ago 282MB

```

Is there a better/established way to do this?