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.

Is your XP computer running Home Edition? If so, please see the following
blog post:

http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/arc...27/458871.aspx

Scroll to the bottom for info on XP Home Edition.

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"Jim" <Jim@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>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.

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:

> Is your XP computer running Home Edition? If so, please see the following
> blog post:
>
> http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/arc...27/458871.aspx
>
> 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...
> >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.
>
>

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
news:E20B1C05-C239-4361-982D-6C191FA3F193@microsoft.com...
>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:
>
>> Is your XP computer running Home Edition? If so, please see the following
>> blog post:
>>
>> http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/arc...27/458871.aspx
>>
>> Scroll to the bottom for info on XP Home Edition.
>>
>> --
>> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
>> rights.
>>
>> Want to learn more about Windows file and storage technologies? Visit our
>> team blog at http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/default.aspx.
>>
>>
>> "Jim" <Jim@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:11D2CC8C-FC65-441C-B591-98AA49FDC3DE@microsoft.com...
>> >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.
>>
>>