Automatically back up your hard drive
For all those who have data they would like to keep forever. We have all learned by now the burnt CD’s and DVD’s are only good for a few years at best, so your best bet is the hard disk juggling routine for backing up your precious data. Here is an article on how to use free software to keep your data backed up over a external drive (you could use a network shared drive just as easy).
Please bear in mind that you could have two simultaneous drive failures, the odds against are very high, but it has happened to me once. I will describe the loss of all my data as being disappointing but somewhat cathartic. :)