Quote from: DannyHamilton on October 02, 2016, 12:33:03 AM

securely stored 1 or more good backups of the wallet

Quote from: 5dollarbill on October 02, 2016, 12:34:36 AM

don't forget to backup your old wallet

Quote from: unholycactus on October 02, 2016, 04:02:01 AM

have a backup ready.

Quote from: achow101 on October 02, 2016, 04:11:39 AM

Make sure you backup.

Hopefully by now you've caught on to the most important step.
Grin

It's a shame it has to be said so often. Even so, there are still people that come to this forum almost every day and ask for help getting their bitcoins back after they did something they didn't understand and didn't have a backup. Unfortunately, there frequently isn't anything than can be done to help by then.