The one thing that most of us skip doing is taking a backup of our work
. We keep on procrastinating and postponing the process of taking a backup of important data. We think that data loss won't happen with us or at least things can't go wrong so soon. One fine day it so happens that your hard disk stops working the way it should. And hell happens. You go berserk trying to figure out what to do. What happens now is loss of important data, money, time and add to it unmatched stress and tension.
You call your computer technician and he tries to make the hard disk work but to no avail. You call up a data recovery company and the price they quote for recovering your data is at least ten times the price of your hard disk and they will also not guarantee that they will be able to recover all your data or not. And most probably you will not be sure about what all data you have lost. That is another big headache to you.
You can prevent all this by developing the habit of taking regular backups of important data. There are numerous ways of doing it. You can store it on another parallel computer or external hard disk. Or store it online in any web backup service or website. Or copy data to your pen drive or DVD. Choose any reliable medium, but take a backup regularly. It will save you a lot of headache in the future. If you have any juniors working under you, you can assign them a daily backup task. Make it a habit of taking backup so that you never have to be at the mercy of a broken hard disk. Remember Murphy's law if things can go wrong, they will. Remember it for all things in life.