As a user of both PCs and Macs on a daily basis I have found each platform’s OS to have certain advantages over one another. One area where OS X Tiger beats Windows XP and Vista is in the backup software department. Apple’s Time Machine has become the gold standard against which all other backup solutions are measured. The true beauty of Time Machine is that a neophyte Mac user can plug in a USB external hard drive, click one button and now their entire system will be backed up. Restoring files is just as simple. In the past Windows solutions were designed more for the experienced or power PC user than the average Windows user such as Mom, Dad and the kids.

This last statement was true until now. A company called Rebit has released a slew of products that perform similar plug and backup capabilities found in OS X Tiger’s Time Machine. In fact Rebit touts via their promotional material that Rebit PC Backup solutions have been called Time Machine for Windows, Time Machine for XP, and Time Machine for Vista.

Today I will be looking at the Rebit Muli-PC software package. The Multi-PC version allows the user to back up to six PCs. If you only need to back up a single machine, they do offer a Single-PC version. Rebit also offers “appliances” which are either 2.5” or 3.5” hard drives with the software preinstalled. With the software package, you need to install it onto your own external hard drive, but in principal it functions the same as the appliance.

So let’s get started!

Rebit PC Backup Software

Reviewed by: Tomas Ratas

Sponsor: Rebit

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Rebit PC Backup Software

Rebit Automatically Backs up Everything on Your Computer

When your hard drive crashes, you lose a lot more than data. Rebit protects everything with complete computer backup. In one instant, your important documents and information, including entertainment files, photos, video, mp3s and financial programs can be lost. But you also lose your operating system, applications, software, settings, bookmarks, drivers and configuration settings. The Rebit hard drive backup system automatically works to save your entire computer environment when you plug it in. Transparently, and continuously.

The Rebit back up hard drive is always working so your backup files are always up-to-date. Any recent changes you've made, programs you've installed, or documents you've saved are reflected in the current back up hard drive. You never need think about what type of data you want to protect, Rebitis always the perfect defense. Ranging from 80 GB to 500 GB, you can be sure Rebit will backup all of your data, and Rebit PC backup makes room for the most recent documents so the drive is always current and never fills up.

 Rebit PC backup is an external hard drive that can be used to backup a desktop or a laptop PC. It simply sits next to your computer, plugged into a USB port and automatically backing up your data and your entire PC continually, and without any effort.

Rebit evaluators have called it Time Machine for Windows®, Time Machine for XP®, and Time Machine for Vista®.

Multi-PC Software

Get all the features of a Rebit multi-PC appliance on the external hard drive you already own.

Simply install the Rebit software while your external hard drive is connected, and it will be converted to a Rebit Multi-PC appliance.

Rebit backs up everything, from pictures to e-mails, even your applications, settings and operating system. You don't do anything. There are no schedules to set, no backup media to set up.

Moments after a file is created or deleted, Rebit will back it up. It will even back up versions of files so that you can recover if you accidentally save over a file. And if you unplug Rebit, it will automatically catch up from where it left off once you plug it back in again.

With the Rebit Multi-PC appliance you can backup up to 6 computers with a single appliance.