Do You Know What We Are Giving Away Free?
OK before the yammering starts, let it be known that this was written on 24 February 2015. So if you’re reading this in 2028 or even in March 2015, don’t yell at us because we’re not STILL giving it away free. By it we are referring to Rebit Backup Software.
Like most of you, we think really nice free stuff is better than really nice stuff you have to pay for. But we had no idea when we first looked at Rebit how really nice it was. There are a lot of good backup programs out there – unfortunately no many of you use any of them. Oh yes, many of you have them installed – we’ve seen them when we’ve worked on computers with our Cloudeight Direct Computer Care Service. We’ve seen Acronis, Paragon, Genie Timeline, all dutifully installed. Yet they lay abandon and forlorn in the scrap heap of software – you know the scrap heap of software you look at and scratch your head and wonder what it is and where it came from – and maybe even blame your grand kids or poor Aunt Edna for installing?
Well, here’s some news for you: Backup programs don’t do you any good if they’re tossed in the scrap heap of software. I mean if your computer goes belly up, you can’t look at the screen and say,”WAIT! Come back! I have Genie Timeline (or Acronis) (or Paragon) (Or Macrium Reflect) installed. You can’t do this to me, I have a backup program…it’s somewhere on here. Come back! Baby, come back!”
Bad news for you. Your computer does not care if you wail or cry. It does not care if you installed a backup program 3 years ago and left it sitting in pile of unused programs in the folder of infamy. I know sometimes you think computers have personalities and they’re your buddies, but they are just a bunch of wires and plastic and metal and who knows what else. They’rd cold, heartless, and uncaring – like EB, for instance.
Lucky for you, we’ve found a backup program that won’t end up in the scrap heap of “What the heck is that” software. Because once you take 5 minutes to set it up, it will keep backing up and backing up and making an image backup of your computer. But, unlike most backup programs, you don’t have to use the drive image it creates unless you have a total disaster.
I’ll tell you why. Because after you’ve made the first full backup – which takes a while – Rebit will continue to make sure all new or changed files are added to your backup up. It does this silently. It doesn’t pop up in your face and remind you how hard it’s working, or tell you what a great program is it, or offer to sell you other products by the same company that made it. Nope. It just stays quiet, Runs in the background, making sure your computer is always backed up – always.
And though it does make a drive image by default, you can restore a single file or folder from the backup. You can play around and browse through your backup just like browsing through a folder or drive on your computer. Do you realize what this means? This means if you accidentally delete a file or folder, you can bring it back in a second. Or if you are playing around with an image editor and make your husband’s picture look like a picture of Dracula with a huge pickle nose, and save it over the original, you don’t have to worry about your husband running off with another woman or checking himself into a mental hospital claiming spousal abuse. Nope. Fear not. Just open Rebit, click Browse, open the folder where your dear beloved husband’s picture is store and drag it back to your desktop or any place on your computer and he’ll never know about the pickle-nose picture. Thus, Rebit could even sort of back up your marriage!
No, no more kidding, it’s true. Rebit lets you browse through your back up as easily and as quickly as browsing any folder or drive on your computer. You can open files from the backup, you can copy files from your backup, you can drag and drop files from your backup – and you still have drive image backup in case of total disaster.
See? Lookie at the picture below. See the arrows? Click Browse. Find the folder or file you want to restore and drag it to your desktop or other location ( you can copy and paste if you like, as well). How can it get any easier or better? Tell me!
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I’m sorry if I’m missing something but is this for external hard drive or cloud?
The version we are giving away is for local backups – i.e.backing up to a separate drive in you home. it can be a networked drive or an external. We strongly advise everyone not to do image backups in the cloud – it would take a long time for most people to download 400 – 500GB of data. That’s why services like Carbonite are not recommended. If you want to store a few important files in the cloud, that’s fine but storing an entire drive’s worth as an image in the cloud is replete with problems when it comes time to use it.
Can you give us more details on how this works and where info is stored? I thought if computer crashes everything on it is lost
It works just like the picture shows. You click Browse and find the files/folders you want to restore. If you need to image a drive with the drive image, you boot from the CD you create when you first install Rebit. That way you can boot your computer without an operating system with formatted or new hard drive and use your image backup to image the new or formatted drive (or one with a bad windows installation) with just a click.
It’s not complicated. The key is with Rebit, it’s easy to recover a single file or folder from a backup or to use the drive image to restore everything. Both can be done with just a couple of clicks. Most of the time, most of us would need the file/folder recovery more than the image backup. For instance moving to a new operating system without upgrading – the image would do no good but being able to recover all your folders and files would be great.
Image backups are important but so are file and folder backups. Rebit does both easily and well. The key with Rebit is to make the recovery disk when you install Rebit as recommended. Without it the image backup won’t do you any good if your hard drive fails.
If you look at the picture, you will see that it is backing up to drive J and J is a different drive to what windows operating system is on, that is all that matters. It also has the option of upgrading to back up to the cloud.
I always back up to an external hard drive, but of course if that drive fails you would need to re backup everything again!!!
Backing up to the cloud requires a additional purchase. We strongly recommend you don’t store an image backup in the cloud.
I downloaded rebit and when I go in there it tells me that it will cost me $ 6.95 a month. I ordered me renewal license to get this free download. It says my free trial ends March 23. Do I wait until then and then put in my license number or is there something that I didn’t do right. It is downloaded and on my computer. Thank you for all the things that you do for us computer users. You two are the best. Been a CloudEight member for a long time and only trust what you have to say. Really appreciate it.
We do not recommend you backup to the cloud using Rebit. There is no charge at all to back up as you should – i.e. on a local drive (not the same drive Windows is on). The extra charge applies to using the cloud backup – and that’s not what we recommend. If you would ever need an image back up stored in the cloud, you’d see why – for most people it would take a very very long time to download it – highly inconvenient and full of potential problems.
The image in this article shows the backup made to a local drive (J). This is not a cloud backup, nor do we recommend cloud backups for image backups.
The version we are giving away does not require you to pay anything to backup to a local drive or a networked drive on you home network.
I ordered the emsisoft and rebit. I have not downloaded rebit yet but I would like to know if you advise using an external drive for this as I don’t have one. Also, when I applied for this, a program called spark trust PC cleaner plus came up and started checking for problems. Then, it came up with loads of corrections but wanted me to pay for a subscription to fix them. Is this a good program as I do have the Reg Organizer
You need:
1. a second hard drive
2. An external drive
3. A network drive
You can buy a decent external hard drive for less than $70 – which is less than one year of unlimited cloud storage would cost.
The important thing is never, ever, backup to the same hard drive that Windows is installed on.
Sparktrust is malware and we can assure that neither Rebit nor Emsisoft are causing that problem. I would think either you are not going to the correct page for the Rebit download (if you googled it – you most certainly went to the wrong page). I just double-checked and the download from https://rebit.com/rebit6 is correct – there is no spark trust or any other malware offered – nor are there any ads on that site. You must download the trial version from this page and then use the key we send you to turn it into the full version.
I thought the Genie program I purchased for two computers was doing this already. It’s running and I have external hard drives attached to both computers. Isn’t Genie keeping a running backup of my computers all the time?????
I had that same question
Shirleysonshine
Just because we have entered into a promotional deal with a competing software company does not negate or diminish our recommendation of Genie Timeline. It is a great backup program and we’re in no way recommending you stop using it. Emsisoft provided us with an opportunity to offer Rebit backup software free, we tested the software and found it excellent and easy to use. I’m sure you buy products all the times with different brands that are equal in quality.
I hope this answers your questions …
Thanks,
TC
I’m relieved to know Genie Timeline is still A-Ok with you! Really love Emsisoft and will renew it very soon! Thanks for keeping us up to date on everything!
can you comment on the tv advertised fixit stick a virus and adware cleaner for less than ten bucks. sounds to good to be true
We have already covered this – it is a farce like all miracle snake-oil fixers.
See this Cloudeight Article
I already have an external hard drive plugged into my computer. Is this all I need to use Rebit? After I install Rebit do I click on full system protection?
There are three options: Online backup (cloud backup) which is not free = it requires you to pay a fee for online storage.
There are local back and network backup as well. The only one you need to be concerned with, if you have an external drive, is Local Backup. Once you select that and the the backup begins, the other two options will disappear.
Regarding ‘Rebit’, and notes from Cindy and Shirley ;- As a long time user and promoter of Cloudeight , I would like to take a moment to comment on their query and your reply:- I too found I had the same question nagging at the back of my mind, as I also have installed Genie Timeline and back up to my external drive ! My first thought was -“what’s going on here ?”- you have just been promoting Genie Timeline to us, and NOW you seem to be advocating a different product to accomplish the same thing !?!?
What, or who Emsisoft chooses to deal with, or who you research and subsequently choose to promote to us is strictly your own business, and I am sure the vast majority of us, like myself, tremendously appreciate the priceless help you offer us on a regular basis !
Notwithstanding that, I did find your reply a little on the ‘defensive’ side ! I would like to proffer a suggestion in this regard that I hope you will take time to consider, and not be offended, but try to look at these ‘situations’ from our side – which I realize is not the easiest thing to do sometimes . I here quote from your reply: – ‘Just because we have entered into a promotional deal with a competing software company does not negate or diminish our recommendation of Genie Timeline’ – I think we would find it mutually beneficial and more easily, and readily understood, if you were to promote a new product that directly competes with one recently suggested, that you INITIALLY introduce it with a statement such as I have quoted from your reply ! I look forward to your thoughts in this regard .
Cheers, David.
ok I have the external drive but where do I get the local drive?
On the contrary, you must be seeing ghosts. We have nothing to be defensive about. We did a lot of research into Rebit6 as soon as we found out about the promo. In fact, we backed up two computers with it, browsed files and restored a computer with it. How much more research do you think we should have done?
David, there are two of us – just tow. Not only do we publish 2 newsletters each week, we fix dozens of computers each week, answer several hundred emails per week, many who are folks asking for help which, if we can we provide pro bono even though our financial situation is tenuous.
Apparently you think we (Cloudeight) have the clout and reach t negotiate deals with companies who are eager to work with us and reach or readers. We wish that were true, but, David, it is not.
I’m somewhat taken aback by your comments. What should we have done? Turned down the offer from Emsisoft to provide our readers and subscribers with free software that is equally as good as Genie timeline. Why does our recommendation of a product negate the recommendation of a competing product? I don’t understand that kind of thinking.
Over the course of our 18 + years on the Internet we’ve recommended many programs – and sometimes as in the case of Reimage, Captain Optimizer, Registry Commander, and others – the companies are bought out by others and the products are changed, or the service is changed and we can no longer recommend them. Not everything stays the same – and we tell our readers when we pull our recommendation of a software product – this irritates some who call us “flip-floppers” – which is what you’re doing, I think, in a rather roundabout way.
We never stopped recommending Genie Timeline. Emisoft is a much bigger company than we are – with far more reach and a lot more clout. I highly doubt that any of the companies like Genie Timeline, Cyberghost, Rebit or any of the other companies that we’ve been able,to provide our readers with free licenses for, thanks to Emisoft would have made that same offer (free licenses) available to us.
I’m not sure why you seem to be in a tither about Rebit – I assume you’ve tested it as thoroughly as we have – made backups with it, restored files with it, restored drives with it? What exactly do you find wrong with Rebit that would cause you to spend so much time posting things about it here?
We never in any way intended to give the impression that Rebit is wonderful and Genie Timeline is not. They are both good products – however we don’t have any Genie Timeline keys to give away.
I’ve tested both products extensively. In my opinion both products are equally good. I find Rebit a little easier if one wants to create Image backups by default and Genie a little easier if one wants to create folder/file backups.
Both are good software programs and we can say that because we both (EB and I ) have both put many hours into testing them – and have installed both on many computers.
If you find this answer defensive as well, then you truly are seeing ghosts. If telling the truth is being defensive, then I guess you’re right and you win 🙂
Re: The Genie Timeline vs Rebit question
A few commenters above wonder about the viability of Genie Timeline.
I have used Timeline for the past few years and generally found it to be reliable. . . until the 2014 version.
Timeline 2014 was not reliable, nor was Genie9 support – even when they ran out of answers and recommended that I try Timeline 2015. 2015 was no better.
I am happily using Rebit now.
This is just one story from one person. Take it for what it is. For me, I won’t be going back to Genie9 products. My data and time are too valuable.
We tested both Rebit and Genie Timeline – in disaster recovery situations – and found they both worked fine. Genie, is not by default, a drive-image type backup program, it can be configure that way. It’s default is a file/folder backup system. Rebit is by default an image backup system.