Summary: Your <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicket_gate" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WICKET</a> (a window or opening, often closed as in door or forming a place of communication) like electronic data can be much like and opening for you to go through to store small things without opening everything to be stolen or damaged. A Wicket is just an opening in something larger. This could be your external hard drive, CD or online <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Backup</a> to protect your data. This could be anything digital you want to store: photos, documents, files or passwords etc... You only need this small opening to store a little at a time as things change after doing the full move-in to your storage vault. Kind of like barricading your data. If you are over the age of 50 you are 80% more likely to do backups than someone younger. About 30% of everyone never does anything. Backing up your data can be simple if you follow a few simple steps. Use the Rule-of-Three at minimum for the most secure solution. This means 3 copies, original, a backup of the original, and a backup of the backup. One copy at home(locally) for quick restores and recovery. The second and third should be in separate locations off-site, safe from (lightning, flood, fire or theft etc...). Original copy can be on DVD's or CD's or a second hard drive internal or portable external HD, NAS(network attached storage) or memory stick. You can store second copy on these off-site maybe safe deposit box, stored with family or friends you trust. The third should be another location at different location, maybe other family member or online backup I.E. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_storage" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Cloud Storage</a>. If you don't have the Internet speed (usually more than 1 Mega bits per second) to use <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-site_data_protection" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Off-Site data protection</a> or cloud solutions consider others. Some off-site venders even allow you to send them a hard drive they can then download and return. There are various software solutions for this or use the built-in solutions in Windows or Apple operating systems. Remember to also consider your mobile devices like cell phone, phablet, tablet or laptop. Some of these also come with their own solutions, sometimes you can backup to cloud or a desktop or laptop then that backup can be stored when it has it's backup. What should you backup, the choice is yours but anything you can't afford to loose or recreate. Files, Documents. Financial stuff, personal or Business stuff, Scanned copies, Creations, Memorabilia, Recordings(voice, music or movies) you don't have originals of. Look at this for ideas of what to backup and why: <a href="http://elderdivide.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2014/11/Backups.jpg" rel="nofollow"></a> With Windows 7 or 8 you can go to: Start - Control Panel - Backup and Recovery. Not the best choice but better than nothing. Create a restore disk on CD/DVD or thumb drive and then a system image of entire hard drive to location you have chosen. For regular backups: choose location and setup schedule when this should happen. I would do this at least monthly so you don't loose too much. For recovery use the restore media you chose to boot off of, then same Backup and Recovery system. Monthly backups should only be your data folders or drive and image backup should be done every 6 months to year. DO NOT BACKUP to a PARTITION on same DRIVE! remember if this drive fails so will your backup. Apple has their iCloud with backup and recovery for both desktop, laptop and mobile. With a software solutions you can do a main image of required operating system files needed for installed software and settings you don't want to loose. Then setup regular monthly backups of all your data. Or add additional incremental backups daily,
