What do you mean by putting the /home/user folder into a dedicated partition?
It's already on a separate XFS file-system, and that cannot be changed (XFS
partitions cannot be shrunk), unless I recreate the partition from backup.
Since backup is not something I'd like to pay too much attention, I want to
keep it as simple as possible, in other words, connecting the external drive
into the USB port, starting the backup software, selecting to do a backup,
and the application should do the rest for me automatically, hassle-free.
I want to do this once in a while, and I would not like to backup my local
data from home folder separately, although this will possibly work also by
using Deja-Dup, and this seems to be the closest way to do what I want. It's
a shame Clonezilla doesn't contain such an important functionality.
