I used to dedupe a lot to save space, on any OS, Mac, Windows, and Linux. But one of the main reasons I end up with many dupes is various archiving and backup s

I used to dedupe a lot to save space, on any OS, Mac, Windows, and Linux. But one of the main reasons I end up with many dupes is various archiving and backup schemes I use, and I’ve realized deduplicating reduces backup safety. If the source file gets somehow corrupted for any reason, all copies are lost. I’m sure a deduping file system is slightly better here than a deduping utility and/or my own scripts, but still having only one copy of the bits is more precarious than saving multiple copies.