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Mac backup your raspberry pi. Requires SSH client, dd, gzip installed
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rpi_backup_recover.sh
#Mac Backup your Raspberry Pi
#Backup remotely (requires public key exchange for pi account):
ssh pi@raspberry sudo dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 | gzip -c > raspberry.img.gz
#Recover (requires locally mounted disk device rdisk1):
gzip -dc /path/to/raspberry.img.gz | sudo dd of=/dev/rdisk1 bs=1m
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This will work on Linux and other *nix as well.

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