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I have a set of commands I run occasionally to back up my homedir. That contains pretty much anything that's text, text-like and related metadata. Things like personal documents, code projects, etc. are all in there. Basically anything that isn't enormous goes into that.
i.e. Software installed into my homedir by things like Steam and Wine are currently skipped. It currently runs to about 1GB, compressed.
Minecraft worlds are also skipped but get their own separate backup command set.
Never really got around to compiling those command sets into actual scripts. I kind of prefer to copy-paste them out of a text document and into the terminal so I can take action at each step if something goes wrong.
The major failing is that they each build a single tar.xz, which I then copy to an external 1TB drive. There's no deduplication so that's getting a bit full at this point.
Photos and media hoards (software installers, website rips, music) currently go on a single Storage drive that isn't backed up. I should probably do something about the photos, tbh.