Keep .dng "original" AND adjusted version... or just revert to CR defaults for "original" condition?

As with everyone, my file space requirements are growing rapidly.  So, for my workflow, from my camera I'm planning to keep the .jpg and .cr2 (Canon) converted to .dng as my "original" files (then dump the .cr2).  I'll then take the .dng into camera raw and create a .psd to work on.  That .psd would become the finished product which I'll keep that along w/a .tiff and .jpg version of it. (Total of 5 files)
At first I was going to keep both the original .dng AND the .dng after adjustment in Camera Raw (save w/[DONE] hosted in Bridge)  - but in the interest of saving some space I thought I could instead save only the adjusted .dng.
That way I'd have saved my adjustments, but if I ever wanted to "start over," or try another processing round for the file, I could just make a copy of the adjusted .dng and reset everything to 'default' in Camera Raw so that the file would be  (I think...) just as it was right after the .cr2 -> .dng conversion.
Is there any major/critical flaw to this plan?  I don't want to start to do this and then find out 1,000 images later that I overlooked something I shouldn't have.

Steep Ascent wrote:
Is there any major/critical flaw to this plan?  I don't want to start to do this and then find out 1,000 images later that I overlooked something I shouldn't have.
Well, you do know that Camera Raw has the ability to store Snapshots, right? So, when you get finished with an image you can save a snapshot so you can keep a record of your image adjustments. You could then also do a snapshot of the Camera Raw "Defaults" will in essence be whatever you have set as the default for your camera...
But no, as long as you are sure you'll _NEVER_ need to use the camera makers raw processing software, saving out a DNG with your snapshots should not produce a technical issue down the road...
With the possible exception of the fact this stuff keeps getting better and better so while your PSD might be state of the art given today's processing, the next version of Camera Raw may be capable of producing better results. You are under no obligation to reprocess your images once you are done with them, but nice to know you can if you want to...

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