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GARBA is a name element of its own right. The Germanic word *garba or *garva means "ready (for battle)". Names with the full element *garba are extremely rare. Usually it is shortened to GARU, GARO or GARI as a first element (Garufrid, Garoman, Garimar), the U, O and I being a linking vowel. As a second element *garba usually shrinks to -gar (Baldegar, Irmingar, Ortgar …). A lot of times this causes confusion with the element GER (gair), "spear, lance". Sometimes it is also found as -car and then could get confused with HARJA > HER like in Herbert.
So the famous Italian liberator (if this is the correct word) Guiseppe Garibaldi could derive the second part of his surname either from "ready" or "spear".

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This is taken from:
Ernst Förstemann: Altdeutsche Personennamen (1906)
Henning Kaufmann: Altdeutsche Personennamen, Ergänzungsband (1968)