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Yesterday was World Backup Day. If you haven't, make a backup of all your important data. Copy it to a separate hard drive, or preferably some place off-site. The price of spinning platter hard drives is way up right now, but it's worth it to save years of your digital life. There are also online backup services like Backblaze, Mozy, and Carbonite, along with sync services such as Dropbox.
Seconded. I've lost basically the last 2 or 3 weeks due to the near simultaneous failures of my backup drive and then my laptop's drive, attempts to repair them, ordering and receiving new drives, frantically backing up onto new drives... I'm still not done.
(I'm using an ancient laptop that turns off every 10 or 20 minutes and has only 512MB of RAM; turns out that's not enough, these days, to run Firefox with more than 5 or 6 tabs open.)
Dropbox + Backblaze is a great combo. It doesn't cover cloud / SaaS backups, so I do manual backups of Google Docs and Evernote every N weeks.