Online Backup
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^ ideally you partition your HD with all software and OS on one partition, and all storage files on another partition (you need to move application folders like bookmarks to your storage drive). Create a disk image of your OS/Application partition so if anything ever goes wonky, you can just overwrite with a new version from your disk image without obliterating your work. Redo this regularly so software updates get included in your image and you don't have to sit through hours of Windows updates to get back to current. Now get a second HD and set the two up to run as a raid mirrored pair and you're unlikely to have a drive failure ruin you. You should also back up routinely to a remote backup in case your computer ever catches fire/gets in a flood/gets stolen by thieves/shorts out and fries everything/etc. While we're spending money, it's not a bad idea to have a spare computer kicking around either. Nothing worse than being on a rush job and having your mobo/PSU/GFX card die right in the middle of it.
Some suggest backup to optical media, as there's a virus out there called cryptolocker that will encrypt all work files and demand payment or throw away the encryption key. Automatic syncing can infect your remote storage with the virus -- food for thought.
I like and use AllwaySync for backups. I launch it with a nightly service in windows and pass it an argument to run a predefined job. It makes sure everything new from the day is captured to my backup drive/file-server.