You can make a backup of your pi and have the backup written to your regular PC all from the command line.
From your local machine, run the remote backup command:
ssh pi@xx.x.x.xx "sudo dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1M | gzip -" | dd of=/path/to/pibackup.gz
After 47min 21sec, in my case, got this as output:
30436+1 records in
30436+1 records out
31914983424 bytes (32 GB, 30 GiB) copied, 2830.89 s, 11.3 MB/s