I think most devs here learn to keep their laptops relatively stateless. All important files gets offloaded to Dropbox / Github / S3, whichever service makes the most sense. Frankly, whatever I lose if my laptop HDD dies must not have been that important if it never made it to one of those services.
Implementing and maintaining whole-disk backup procedures and media? Shoot me now.
Implementing and maintaining whole-disk backup procedures and media? Shoot me now.