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How to compress and decompress dd raw data trough gzip

This is very usefull when dealing with sd card images :-)

compress

sudo dd if=/dev/<input device> | gzip --best  > backup_sd.img.gz

decompress

gunzip -c backup_sd.img.gz | sudo dd of=/dev/mmcblk0
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