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  1. 09-18-2009, 05:21 PM #1
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    Opinions on backup called "Rebit"

    There is a software backup called "Rebit" http://rebit.com/ that is set it and forget it, you must supply a drive of equal size or greater to your main hard drive. I use Acronis and I would even if I use Rebit, I realize that if you crash and if the crash was caused by a virus, Rebit would restore the drive with the virus, that is one thing that troubles me. Acronis is good but gave me problems when I restored myself, it recovered all data but Windows was corrupt. I don't mind spending some money for the piece of mind especially since I recently recovered from a fatal crash, cost about $25 for Rabit plus the cost of an external drive and I value the opinions from Gotapex...
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  2. 09-18-2009, 06:22 PM #2
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    I use Acronis religiously now. Never had any Windows corruption issues (WinXP Pro) and I backup all of my laptops and desktops manually every few weeks.
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    I have acronis. I wish the incremental backups were more progressive. I want the daily backups rolled into the weekly incrementals which are rolled into maybe a monthly full copy until my hard drive is full. That way I can restore to yesterday, two days ago, two weeks ago, or last month.

    I also think Acronis blurs the line between backups and imaging a bit too thin. They really are distinct functions.

    It's also not perfect across a network. It usually stops backing up maybe every 20 gigs or so to say there was an IO error and I just hit retry and it continues just fine.

    I might give rebit a try.
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    What happens when the external drive dies, gets lost, gets stolen, or falls victim to fire/flood, etc.?

    Not knocking it, but online/offsite to me is the way to go...
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  5. 09-19-2009, 02:09 PM #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by mechmike0034
    What happens when the external drive dies, gets lost, gets stolen, or falls victim to fire/flood, etc.?

    Not knocking it, but online/offsite to me is the way to go...
    That's why I would also use Acronis. The problem with me, not Acronis, is that I don't do a full Acronis backup on schedules, I do it when I remember about once a month. Rebit will be always be up to date.
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    I can't imagine how long it would take to upload hundreds of gigs over the net. By then it's a whole new computer.
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