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Net backup and restore of Raspberry PI image with netcat and dd.md

Raspberry PI (cli):

  $ DST_HOST=nc_machine_addr
  $ SDSIZE=`sudo blockdev --getsize64 /dev/mmcblk0`;sudo pv -tpreb /dev/mmcblk0 -s $SDSIZE | nc $DST_HOST 19000

Netcat machine | "nc_machine_addr" (srv):

  $ nc -l 19000 | dd bs=1M of=/path/to/file.img

Restoring img to SD card:

  $ sudo dd bs=1M if=/path/to/file.img of=/dev/disk1
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