By George Harding
Backing
up is a task that should be done regularly. If overlooked, a computer
breakdown could be catastrophic. The problem is that you have to
remember to back up. Now there’s a fix to remembering – Rebit Pro.
This
product backs up every change in each of your files every 30 seconds!
You wouldn’t back up that frequently because it would be impractical.
But Rebit Pro can do it without any intervention on your part. The only
time that back up is paused is when the keyboard is active.
And
where is this back up? Initially on a USB device or NAS. A full system
backup is followed by a mirror in the cloud. This copy enables you to
do a full system recovery from a restore point at any time that you
select.
If
you have a hard disk failure, are infected by a virus or malware, or
even if your laptop is stolen, you can recover completely from the cloud
backup.
You
can try it out with a free trial. You download the software install
program, install it and set up your account. The email and password you
set up are used for two purposes. First, an email is sent to the address
you specified to validate you email address. Second, if you need to
access your files, you will need your email and password to do so.
The
next step is to decide which files to back up. You can select from
Desktop, Documents, Music, Photos and Videos. The backing up process
begins immediately and is done locally. You should proceed with a full
system back up, which can occur at the same time, to a USB external
drive or network attached storage device.
Saving
a copy of local files proceeds every 30 seconds, as files are changed,
protecting you from almost any loss. In addition, the USB or NAS full
backup will be mirrored to the cloud once each day.
Once
the full backup is completed, you won’t notice any impact on your
everyday operations. Rebit Pro operates in the background, never
interfering with your work.
So
for protection in case of hard drive failure, theft or malware/virus
attack, use Rebit Pro for easy and complete back up of your computer or
laptop.
Rebit Pro www.rebit.com
Price about $80 per year, free trial available
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Unfortunately, Rebit Pro, despite its promise, proves to be dangerously unreliable. Once or twice a year (first with Rebit 5, now with Rebit Pro), I've gone into the Rebit browser to discover that whole volumes of data are not showing up as backed up.
ReplyDeleteThis despite the fact that the backup history in the Rebit dashboard logs successful restore points having been made over the course of many months.
The last time this happened, I was assured that the data was there, and would be restorable in a disaster recovery scenario, but was advised that the only solution to the volumes not be visible in file browser was to quick format the backup media and start the backup process from scratch.
This time, I'm being told that the data in fact has not been getting backed up for many months (again, despite a long history of restore points indicating that it had been) due to disk errors on my machine. The technician indicated from reviewing system logs that all of the volumes on my system disk were "corrupt"--when, in fact, a chkdsk on each volume reported minor errors on only one volume--and insisted that it was my fault that Rebit wasn't working as advertised.
Yet, when confronted on the point that Rebit was *reporting* that it was working as advertised, was *reporting* that it was successfully backing up the system and creating a stream of restore points month after month, the response from the technician was that I couldn't expect Rebit to report that it was failing to backup my drive because it wasn't a "system diagnostic utility".
In other words, error reporting that we can expect from any office productivity application or one-trick freeware product, any of which will loudly and obstinately alert the user of any failure to access files on disk, cannot be expected from a product that is specifically sold for the purposes of disaster recovery because its not a "system diagnostic utility".
Notepad will tell me when it can't read a file, but Rebit Pro can't tell me when it fails to access an entire volume on my disk. Instead, where Notepad would throw an error, Rebit Pro reports success and logs a completed recovery point in its history.