Having the best hardware is nothing if you do not have a viable backup scheme in place. One solution might be to use something like AlmerBackup to keep things from being lost forever.

While it does not have the fancy logo or UI of some of its competitors, it is an alternative that might just provide the economical solution that many of us need. Best part is that you can try and if you like it, you will only be set back $30!

AlmerBackup is a backup and restore utility that allows you to backup your files to floppy disks, hard drives, network drives, Zip drives, JAZ, SyQuest and most other removable devices including direct burning to CD-RW. You can create multiple backup jobs and have them start automatically on startup, shutdown or based on a user defined schedule. The program supports several types of backup, including simple copy, simple move or deleting old, out of date files and backup files to zip-archive. It can create file names and directories based on date or time macros and keep multiple revisions of a file. Additional features include file splitting for removable media, include/exclude masks, FTP support and logging.