Backing up networked drive to DVD

[Paul]

I have a Dell tower running Vista and I have set up a home network with my
Toshiba Laptop and Compaq tower, both of which run XP. Why can't I use the
backup facility on my Vista machine to backup the drives from my Toshiba and
Compaq computers?

 

[Jeffrey Randow]

Vista backup works differently than XP and earlier. It is more image
based..

There are third party and freeware backup solutions that will write to
your DVD drive (most of the DVD-writing software will do this).

 

[Paul]

Hi Jeffrey,

I'm not having a problem writing to my DVD drive. The problem is with
selecting a source on my home network to backup from, not to. I would love to
use the Vista backup utility to backup all three of my PCs on the DVD drive
of my Vista machine, but can't figure out how to do that.

Thanx anyway for the reply.

 

[Jeffrey Randow]

You can't use the Vista one to do that...

That's why I was suggesting the DVD drive software that does this type
of backup...

 

[Paul]

Thank you--I didn't quite understand that from your reply. I'm trying and
alternate backup method--the one that comes packaged in the McAfee stuff
that's free from Comcast. I'll let you know how that works.

Thanx again,
- Paul