p:: CLI The fastest way to clone an SD card on macOS Identify your sd card diskutil list Copy the SD card as a disk image (dmg) sudo gdd if=/dev/rdisk2 of=sd_backup.dmg status=progress bs=16M Copy the disk image (dmg) to your SD card { sudo diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2 sudo gdd of=/dev/rdisk2 if=sd_backup.dmg status=progress bs=16M }