RebitPro

RebitPro attempts to combine the ease of local backup found in Rebit 5
?with cloud backup. You can also opt to back up to a USB drive (including Rebit's own USB drives:the RebitPlus Appliances which range from 500GB of local storage and 20GB of cloud storage up to 2TB of local storage and 100GB of cloud space (priced between $130-$330).

Targeting small businesses with the product, RebitPro's maker states the software can also back up both clients and servers. It does?as long as you have Rebit installed separately on each client and server. I found the software unable to perform backups of remote machines, which most business backup software can do. RebitPro is simple and easy backup, but works more like backup for home users or small home offices and less like a true business backup. For the most micro of business users, RebitPro works fine, but those with sensitive data or lots of storage may find its business capabilities lacking.

Setup
RebitPro is backup software and cloud storage?that works with Windows PCs. For $49.99 per year, users get to backup 20GB of data to Rebit's online storage from one local PC.
Rebit sent the software installed on its own 1TB USB hard drive along with an installation and PC recovery CD. I didn't need to use the CD since the software was already on the drive. RebitPro can also be downloaded from Rebit's site.
Starting up the setup file from the USB drive (which I attached to a Windows 7 notebook) kicked off a 64-bit install. The installation is quick and easy. At installation, Rebit's logo?a small frog icon (get it? ribbit!)?gets added to the Windows System Tray. Clicking the logo gives users quick access to the software interface, help system, and browsing backup data.?

Configuration is also quite easy, as the software guides you through two required steps. First, you need to create an account with Rebit to use online storage. Next is entering the license key obtained after purchasing RebitPro.

Rebit's motto "Ridiculously simple backup" is certainly applicable to setup and configuration of RebitPro. It's easy software to get going and doesn't require IT-level backup knowledge.

RebitPro in Use
Configuring backup jobs is performed though the Dashboard in Rebit's interface. It's a clean interface and easy enough to work within.

There are three options for backing up data. You can back up to a USB external drive (or use Rebit's own USB direct-attached storage appliance), to a network folder, or to the cloud. For redundancy, it's best to target backup jobs to at least two separate destinations.

The interface has three sections: Local, Network, and Online. Local is where you can create a backup job to copy data to a directly attached storage drive. I selected two files local on my Windows 7 notebook to test backup. As soon as I created this backup job, the Dashboard showed a status of "Backing up?preparing." When the backup was complete a few seconds later that status changed to "Backed up."

I have letter mappings to two shares on a server that's connected to the same network as my Windows 7 notebook: designated as the X: and Z: drives. When creating a backup job in RebitPro, the interface only allowed me to select data from the local C: drive of the notebook: It didn't display the mapped network drives at all. This is problematic since Rebit is marketing this as a small business solution and mapped drives to a central server or NAS is common practice for small business networks. I would need to have

Rebit confirmed, by design, only drives physically connected? to a computer are selectable for backup. However, the company also stated that to back up a network share, the machine name and credentials have to be supplied to reach that share.

I can confirm in my testing that supplying that information still did not allow me to backup a network share. To me, having to install Rebit on both a client and server and then create independent backup jobs for each machine?is kind of a hassle.

?The Network area of the interface allows you to backup data to a network share. I was easily able to copy local files on my notebook to my server by entering the UNC path to a folder on the server in the Rebit interface and by providing login credentials to the server. Which is even more reason why I don't understand why I can't select data from the server to backup. Even SOS Online Backup allows for backing up network drives.

The Online section is where you create a backup job to send data to Rebit's cloud storage. I think Rebit missed an opportunity in the interface to improve workflow. For me to backup local data to both my USB drive and the cloud, I have to create two separate backup jobs and then send one to the cloud and one to the USB drive. I would prefer after selecting local data to back up to have a quick one-click option in the interface to tell the software to go ahead and back this same data up to the cloud as well.

Many of the same features in Rebit5 are in Rebit Pro, including full disk backup, file versioning, and disk recovery options. When opting for full system backup, Rebit makes a recovery point every 24 hours. When you create your own custom backup set (cherry-picking the files and folders to backup versus a full system backup) backup happens every two hours. I did not find any way to change that increment within the software. Rebit reps did tell me that with higher tier-subscriptions (150GB, 250GB and more) there is an enhanced feature that allows users to alter this timing.?

With its continuous data protection, Rebit captures a backup of an updated file and keep copies of older versions, so it offers versioning.

It's very easy to recover deleted files. Once data is backed up, you can click "Browse" from the Dashboard to browse backed up data?whether than data is in the cloud, on a network share, or on a USB drive.

I backed up all data in the My Documents folder. Unless performing a full system backup, you don't have many automated choices for selecting data to backup, you have to browse. The local personal Windows folders? Documents, Video, Pictures, Music and Desktop?can all be selected for backup though, through the interface without having to browse to them.?

After clicking "Browse," in the Dashboard, Windows Explorer opened to display an Online Backup icon, creating a mirror of the backed up data. Clicking open this icon opened the backed up copy of my My Documents folder. From there, I could open backed-up My Documents and drag and drop any backed up file into my C: drive's My Documents folder?a quick way to restore any deleted or corrupted data to My Documents.

Too Simple for Some Business Data
RebitPro is efficient and easy software. The inability to backup network drives and a lack of business-class features that other online backup software offers such as cloud storage adherences to regulations like HIPAA or SAS-70 makes this more of a personal use backup and very small business solution. Because Rebit is promoting this as an SMB product, the fact that it really has no business-class features makes it a 3.5-star earner, with SOS Online Backup still retaining Editors' Choice for backup software.

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