There’s a famous saying that “data that’s not backed up is data you’re prepared to lose.” I used Windows for a very long time, and managed to lose quite a bit of data back in the day because of either Windows Update bricking the system or just wanting to reinstall the OS (Windows has a habit of losing performance over time - easiest fix is a fresh install). I had been performing backups manually to an external hard disk, frequently forgot to backup something critical, and only had backups when I cared to make them (i.