saving the entire scene .. models and all...

Outside of runing some software that gathers a product for sale... I don't suppose there's any way to have the program gather all the objects etc that make up the scene along with the scene?
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I've got stuff going back years and drives have changed and crashed and sometimes getting an old scene up and running is a pain...
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Yes of course they would be big files.. but a 4tb drive is down to about $120 bucks ... so even a scene file was 5gigs a drive would hold 800 of them.