Time Machine after Snow Leopard install

[ayeplussjr]

This might be a stupid question, but I thought I would just ask.

I plan on wiping my hard drive clean and then upgrading to snow leopard. Once I have all my backups restored in snow leopard would it be a stupid thing to do if I reformatted my external hard drive that I use for time machine and start new time machine back ups on my external hard drive? I would only do this of course once I have my settings, and files restored to my liking of course. Once I have them set up to my liking would would be the point of keeping my old backups, right? I could just start new backups once I have what I need restored.

Would this be a stupid thing to do?

 

[Watabou]

No it's not stupid. You could do that. But make sure ALL of the things that are backuped are brought over to the new OS and then reformat the external HD.