I recently upgraded to Fedora 43, and before I did the upgrade I wanted a quick way to backup my entire home directory. Why the entire directory? I found that for my browsing and a few other applications, if I restore the entire directory all my tabs and settings are returned easily.
This was a total of 600K files at about 40 GB. So I actually used my file browser, Nemo, to compress the entire directory, and then I copied it to my external USB hdd. Entire process took less than half-an-hour.