Rebit 5 review

While such continuous backup is undoubtedly useful, it is also one offered by other more comprehensive backup applications like Acronis True Image Home, which provides many more customisation options and allows you freer reign over the type and timing of backups.

Your system disk is locked and has to be part of the backup

As well as keeping a continuous backup of your files, Rebit also makes incremental recovery points every 24 hours as long as the destination drive is attached. These can be used for a full system recovery should disaster strike. The backup archive is a mirror of the protected drives, and you can browse them and restore individual files and folders simply by dragging and dropping. Version control is also elegantly dealt with, with all the versions for each file accessible immediately when you select the file in the archive. You can also perform a full system restore to your existing or a new hard disk, but more intricate backup and restore routines, like application restore and application setting restore functions, are absent.

The beauty of Rebit 5 is its simplicity. If you just want a reliable and non-intrusive backup, it’s an excellent choice. However, the inability to neither adjust encryption, compression or create custom schedules for your complete backups, nor switch between differential or incremental backup routines, will serve as a handicap for some. If you don’t need too much custom control over your backups, though, it’s a good choice.