My Manjaro backup isn't working

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Since the currently suggested strategy seems to prove difficult for you to implement and this whole thing seems to become a kind of never ending story :wink:
I’d suggest another approach -
based upon what I understood what it is that you want to achieve:

You wanted to retain all the configurations you made to your old system - and the user data as well, right?

I’d just reinstall a fresh system,
then reinstall all the non-standard programs that you installed in addition to what is a default install,
then just restore the $HOME directory from backup.

Not the whole system - just the $HOME directory.

Avoids problems with booting, takes care of different mount options you might need for your new SSDs,
avoids having to edit the /etc/fstab and possibly more files.

Or just exclude /etc/fstab from being overwritten by replaying the backup …
(make a copy of the original in the fresh system - replay backup - replace the now wrong /etc/fstab with the copy you just made …)

I’d exclude the /etc/default/grub directory, too …

It’s really just like playing with Lego - take what you need, leave out what you don’t, what get’s in your way …

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another variant:
you can boot from your temporary live system - as you did many times now …
and access your $HOME directory on the system that will not boot that way
and make a backup of just that (instead of the whole system)
a simple cp -a will do the job just fine
or some graphical filemanager, with “show hidden files/directories” enabled

then replay that to $HOME once you, again, have reinstalled your system

I hope your $HOME is even on the backup.
Timeshift by default does not include it.

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I won’t mark this as solved because I want to keep working on it, but thank you for all your help.

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thats ok

so if you still have your personal files
this

is actually the easy and most sane way to go to get a bootable system with all your stuff on it
Good luck!