my harddisk crashed

For 3 days last week, all i did was saving and transferring my files from one disk to the other. I literally have not performed actual tasks because i was too busy worrying on salvaging my files. I at least have to impose 3 colleagues to allow me to store some of my files temporarily on their workstations. (Thanks to them!) On Thursday, i managed to burn some files and have used 5 DVDs already. I'm not in any way close to 100% in creating backups. The IT personnel took my harddisk thursday night and fortunately returned it to me afternoon the next day. I'm thankful they helped me readily and thanks too to the CAT6 cables, i didn't have a hard time accessing my files remotely.