[Draft] Backup Raspberry Pi SD Card on macOS — the 2019 Simple Way to Clone

You want to backup an SD card you are using to boot up a Raspberry Pi. The best way is to clone it. You can do it in an easy and fast way with Disk Utility, an app shipped with macOS.

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Insert the SD card in you Mac’s slot. Then open the app Disk Utility.

Two

Select View > Show All Devices.

Three

Select the SD card from in the list of volumes on the left. The icon and the information will help to understand if you’ve selected the right one.

It’s important that you select the parent device, not the partition inside. Like in the example.

Then right-click on it and select Image from “NAME”.

Four

Select the DVD/CD master as Format. Click Save and you’re done. It will create an image file using with cdr extension.

Restore a backup

First rename the extension of the image file previously created, from .cdr to .iso. Then download and open Etcher to write the image onto an SD card.