A little battling and got this workaround going... not sure if it's very robust, but it seems to have done the trick... at least once...
Wanted to backup mum's Vista Home Premium laptop to a hidden partition on dad's XP Home desktop. Got annoyed after spending ages setting up desktop to find that Vista Backup & Restore wouldn't backup to XP Home, so got this workaround going (might be a bit patchy, haven't tested it much).
On XP machine:
- Create same user as the Vista user (same username and password) - make them an administrator.
- Log in as that user.
- Create folder or partition where you want to store the backups (has to be on NTFS partition)
- Uncover the security tab (
How Do I See the Security tab in XP Home?)
- Reboot the computer and log in as the same user
- Run "shrpubw" from the run box (start menu or WinKey+r) which should start the "Create A Shared Folder Wizard":
- Click Next;
- Select folder to share, enter share name (I kept it simple - short with no spaces etc), description if you like, click Next;
- Select Customize permissions, click Custom...;
- Click Add, type in username, Click OK, tick all Allow boxes for the user;
- Select Security tab, Click Add, type in username, Click OK, tick all Allow boxes for the user and "CREATOR OWNER" (I did for all entries, just to make sure), Click Advanced;
- Select Owner tab, select the user from "Change owner to:", tick "Replace owner..." (if you want), click Apply, click OK;
- Click OK;
- Click Next;
- Click Finish.
This should be all for the XP machine.
On the Vista machine:
- Go to Backup & Restore, change Backup settings, select the network share, it will ask for username and password - enter username only ("bob") not machine name ("computer/bob") and the password. This should let you through to the page to select what you want to back up. Click through. If it doesn't start a backup automatically, start one manually.
If it works, great! If it stops quite early on you may need to change the registry as according to TexRyker on
Vista Backup and Restore center will not backup to Network Location post dated: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 6:07 PM. Basically:
- backup registry
- search for "LmCompatibilityLevel" until it comes up on right hand pane and change value to 2
- repeat search until you have replaced all instances in registry (twice for me)
- reboot...
- try backup again, and hope!
This is a rather condensed version of what I did, but hopefully all I've missed out was muddling around that didn't affect anything.
There are also, potentially, many places where it could go wrong... not sure what happens when someone other than the user is logged into XP machine (or Vista machine for that matter), or if it actually remembers the password, or if this was just a fluke and will never work again...
Been a while since I've used Windows (moved to Linux a while ago, and would dearly love my parents too as well!) so any advice/experience/feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Good luck!
If anyone knows of a good, free incremental backup system that would work across vista and XP, I'd love to hear about it!
Originally Posted by
Jill Zoeller [MSFT]
Hi Jim,
Due to some security and networking limitations in XP Home Edition, you will
not be able to back up from Vista to your XP computer. You'll need to
upgrade to XP Professional to accomplish this.
See our blog for details:
The Storage Team at Microsoft - File Cabinet Blog : Using network shares as targets for the file-based Backup tool in Windows Vista
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<jim.haselmaier@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>I have a Vista laptop that I want to backup to an XP (Home) machine
> that has a drive shared to the network. I *have* mapped this share as
> a local drive on my Vista machine. (Drive Q
>
> When I start Vista Backup the option to select a network-based
> destination is grayed out. And the hard disk, CD and DVD pull-down
> list does not list my locally-mapped drive as an option.
>
> Anyone know what I need to do to fix this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim
>
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