John Wolf and anyone else following this feature request. I am the product designer on Local and I am starting in on a Backup project for Local. I'd love to chat with you about the topic and learn more about your needs. If anyone would be interested in talking please just grab some time on my calendar. I have availability from the 9th – 16th. Just need about 30 minutes of your time. Thanks!

Especially because existing backup plugins do not work in Local. https://localwp.canny.io/feature-requests/p/compile-zlib-extension-into-the-default-php-binaries