You might consider getting a second external drive to keep an extra copy of your songs in case of hard drive failure. Just call me paranoid. I keep backups of virtually everything. I even use Acronis True Image to image my hard drives. Basically the point I am trying to make is that if you have all your songs on an external or an internal drive and that drive goes bad you will have to import every one of your cdgs again. Backing up the program is not critical. Just keep the exectuable file and you can reinstall it. Backing up the songs is very critical.