Hi
I have published a little article on my blog explaining properly how to backup Home-Assistant and dependencies: Home-Assistant: how to backup it efficiently ! | Domedia
It’s also avalaible in French: Home-Assistant: Comment faire une sauvegarde efficace ! | Domedia
Hope it can help 
Vincèn
Thanks for the writeup. However, since HA now supports network drives for backups, backing up locally and transferring remotely after is not advisable, because you might be backing up on a faulty drive. So setting up a networked drive and backing up to that straight away is now the preferred way.
The Community Guides category operates like a wiki. Anyone can keep the first post up to date. We can’t edit your blog. Moved to Share your Projects category.