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Backup and restore a raspberry pi
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Mac Backup your Raspberry Pi

Given a Raspberry Pi with Rasbian, you'll need to backup your sdk every now and then.

(courtesy of @nickbauman)

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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