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As a point of interest, you can partition an existing HD, install a new OS on that partition, then when on the newly installed OS, move your files around to the new filesystem and format your old drives / partitions as convenient. Installing a new OS doesn’t need to be a “Backup everything, blow it away and start over” process.

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FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Keeping single copies and formatting every drive are exactly the risk factors I wanted to avoid, that’s how you accidentally trash all your data.

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- KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Presumably you’re backing up important files as a matter of course, not only when installing a new OS…
  
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  - FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    As an artist I have “important files” measured in TB.
    
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    KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Sure, I’m not sure why we’re arguing about backup strategies. My wife is the same way; she’s got two 12 TB externals of just backups for exactly the same reason. You implied that you would need to back up your drives specifically because you’d be installing a new OS; that’s all I was commenting on. You do you.
    
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