I often use Gmail a a backup medium next to my (live/backup) drive and DVD backups.

and for Mac users, iDisk do the same... :)

You can always contact the author of the hack to ask if they have the script up on a 3rd party site to download, or ask for an e-mail of the script in what ever version you need. Most people that make something have a master copy of the program stored away somewhere.

As far as a backup of data, I use redundant hard drives.
- 1 TB of data on two different 2 TB drives.

One drive I use and one sits on a desk with latest backup.

lmao ! Now I do feel old....

It's the same for any product. Once it out lives its usefulness, upgrade, or move to something else.

I've just recovered data from a 500gb hard drive for a friend to an extarnal drive, their drive had crashed, they even formatted and reloaded windows, i used Power Data recovery and ripped every file and folder of the hard drive to the external, they recovered all their photo's, files...etc so were very happy :)