One way to do this is to buy an external USB 2.0 hard drive to use for
backups.This is what I do at home and it works well. I have a laptop and
desktop that I back up to the same hard drive--I just plug it into whichever
machine I want to back up to.


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"Jim" <Jim@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I AM running XP Home edition on the other machine. So if I read this
> correctly, I can't use Vista to do auto backups from a Vista Home version
> machine to an XP home version machine. How dissapointing Microsoft! Any
> other suggestions for how to do this backup automagically? Will I have
> this
> same problem if I buy some 3rd party software for backing up? Will I be
> able
> to run 3rd party software to go from my XP Home machine to my Vista Home
> machine? What about hanging a networked external hard drive off of one of
> the machines? Should that be connected to the Vista machine? Will the XP
> machine be able to connect to the ext harddrive on the Vista machine using
> 3rd party software since XP home does not have an automagic backup
> program?
>
> "Jill Zoeller [MSFT]" wrote:
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>> Is your XP computer running Home Edition? If so, please see the following
>> blog post:
>>
>> [url]http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/archive/2006/09/27/458871.aspx[/url]
>>
>> Scroll to the bottom for info on XP Home Edition.
>>
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>> "Jim" <Jim@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:11D2CC8C-FC65-441C-B591-98AA49FDC3DE@microsoft.com...[color=darkred]
>> >I was trying to use Vista's backup wizard to backup files on my Vista
>> >machine
>> > to another home networked machine running XP. I got an error message
>> > saying
>> > that I can't use the wizard to backup from Vista to XP. Is there a way
>> > around this? Yes, I have confirmed that I can file-share between the
>> > two
>> > machines - that's not the problem.[/color]
>>
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