Macbook Pro Crashed.

After recording our fourth song fully, just a few days later my Macbook pro crashed. I had it sent to Dublin with a friend straight away to a shop called 'Compu B'. When contacting the shop they informed me that the Macbook was not turning on properly because the hard drive had crashed permanently. They said that some of the data may be recoverable but more than likely not. A huge error in this project was not backing up our recordings on a separate external hard drive. I will be receiving the Macbook back this thursday and if the data was unrecoverable we will have to spend a couple of days re-recording the songs. Although this could be quite a setback and is dis-heartening, fortunately, the musicians that played for us have been more than kind and offered to re-record gladly to our relief.
On self-evaluation I feel that i was very foolish not to have the data backed up and could potentially have created an overlog of work that could potentially have to be done to catch up.
Up until that stage I felt that we had been doing quite well in relation to our planned project schedule.
On working further on the project when the macbook returns I have already purchased an external hard drive for backing up further recordings and work. I have also gained access to a range of new mic's from a local drummer and intend on experimenting with them for the use of a cahone that will be played by 'Mojo Gogo's' Drummer and percussionist Jordan Carty.
Carl.