....as long as the drive you are transferring to is bigger than the original.
Actually, you don't even need that, Brian, that is more of a Clonezilla attribute.
All you need with Timeshift is to restore to a partition on the destination drive that is just a little bigger than the Timeshift snapshot - but that is a story for another time.
I'm hoping the OP has gone to catch some zzz's, so I will leave a couple of questions for him, and pick up with the action plan on our tomorrow.
1. From GParted or Disks, let us know how much space is consumed by your current root partition (where all your system files are), and what device it is on, for example /dev/sda2
2. Let us know if you are on BIOS-MBR or UEFI-GPT. If the latter, let us know the designation for the ESP (EFI System Partition) (for example /dev/sda1) and its size (maybe 300 to 500 MB).
You can show us this if you like with a screenshot from GParted, if you wish.
3. Let us know if your Home is on the root partition, or if it is on a separate partition, that partition's designation, for example /dev/sda3.
Just remember that what I asked below/before is a question, too.
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If you are able to run the two drives off the same rig,
If not to that last one, all we need is a USB stick a little larger that the total amount of files and data to be transferred, and it should be formatted to EXT4. Such a process will be slower with both creating the snapshot, and with restoring to the new destination, but likely still faster than say Clonezilla (which is still a good product).
you always have clever ways of doing things lol!
You flatter me, but I am a tart for flattery. Let's see how we go first.
Night all.
Wiz