What is good software for incremental backup and good partitioning scheme for reliable snapshots of Manjaro system AND /home

[winnie]

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I am puzzled, because an experienced member suggested separate partition for /home for reliable snapshot of Documents.

You’re sure they weren’t referring to subvolumes, and advising against including @home (i.e, /home) in your Timeshift snapshots?

Partitions are not the same as subvolumes.

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And your question (for this topic) was already answered here:

What is the preferable partitioning scheme for RELIABLE snapshots of / as well as /home?

Preferable is doing only snapshots of /root (subvolume @). /home should not have snapshots. Better use for example borg and vorta is a good GUI for that: Compression and de-duplication included. Just create new subvolume for user files. Think of timeshift like creating a system recovery point on Windows. Obviously it should only include system files and not user files.