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dd Utility - Write and Backup Operating System IMG files on Memory Card with Mac OS X

Posted by Christiaan on · 3 comments
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There are several tools available to copy and install IMG files to SD Memory Cards, but I was looking for something that could easily backup and restore disk image files for my Raspberry Pi with Mac OS X.

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Comments (3)

AwesomeTux ·
Firstly, this article is not about an Open Source program or Linux -- unless you extend your definition of "Linux" to include anything related to GNU such as dd and BASH, and consider a BASH script with numerous calls to a proprietary AppleScript program "Open Source".

Secondly, this "dd Utility" is just a BASH script that does one of the many tasks Apple's "Disk Utility" (as well as GNOME Disk Utility) already does.

I fail to see the benefit.
Steven_Rosenber ·
It discusses dd, a Unix/linux utility, so even though the article is coming from an OS X perspective, the fact that it's a command-line program that is free software is enough to pass the LXer smell test.
linux4567 ·
AwesomeTux is right, this article is off-topic on LXer. The more irrelevant articles like this one get published here the less useful LXer becomes for me as I have to spend more and more time trying to locate the interesting articles among the off-topic stuff.

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