diff --git a/scripts/publish/image_sync.sh b/scripts/publish/image_sync.sh
index 1d792ae81b..8004c5c197 100644
--- a/scripts/publish/image_sync.sh
+++ b/scripts/publish/image_sync.sh
@@ -44,10 +44,14 @@ function get_tags() {
 # start to sync images
 declare -a starwhale_images=("server" "base" "cuda" "dataset_builder" "runtime-dockerizing")
 for image in "${starwhale_images[@]}"; do
-    tags=$(get_tags "$image")
-    # if the image has already synced, regctl would skip it.
-    for tag in $tags; do
-      copy_image "$source_repo_name/$image:$tag" "$target_repo_name1/$image:$tag"
-      copy_image "$source_repo_name/$image:$tag" "$target_repo_name2/$image:$tag"
-  done
+    source_repo_tags=$(./regctl tag -v error ls "$source_registry"/star-whale/"$image")
+    target_repo_tags1=$(./regctl tag -v error ls docker-registry.starwhale.cn/"$target_repo_name1"/"$image")
+    target_repo_tags2=$(./regctl tag -v error ls docker-registry.starwhale.cn/"$target_repo_name2"/"$image")
+
+    while IFS= read -r line; do
+        copy_image "$source_repo_name/$image:$line" "$target_repo_name2/$image:$line"
+    done < <(comm -23 <(sort <<< "$source_repo_tags") <(sort <<< "$target_repo_tags1"))
+    while IFS= read -r line; do
+        copy_image "$source_repo_name/$image:$line" "$target_repo_name2/$image:$line"
+    done < <(comm -23 <(sort <<< "$source_repo_tags") <(sort <<< "$target_repo_tags2"))
 done