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[RPi SD Card Backup] Backup the SD card from a Raspberry Pi from a Mac. #tags: mac, raspberrypi
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Backup SD card to Mac

List devices

diskutil list

Copy SD card to Mac

sudo dd bs=4m if=/dev/diskN of=rpi.`date +%d%m%y`.img

Restore image to SD card

Unmount disk

sudo diskutil unmount /dev/diskN
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