NodeRED & Raspberry Pi Part 3: How To Create A Back Up Image On A Mac

Опубликовано: 05 Март 2026
на канале: Learn AV Programming
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How to back up a Raspberry Pi image to a Macbook or MacOS.

Here are the terminal commands mentioned in the video:
Shutdown the Raspberry Pi:
sudo shutdown -h now

Get a list of disks on your Mac:
diskutil list

Clone the SD card (if your SD card is mount at /dev/disk2):
sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk2 of=~/Desktop/controlpi.img bs=1m

To see the progress of the copy operation press :
CTRL+t

Any questions? Ask away in the comments :-)

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0:00 Shutdown Raspberry Pi with SSH
0:55 Explore SD card on MacOS
1:35 Copy SD card command
3:00 Getting the copy process status