Asp – Local Email Test on Vista Home

Chris,

They're different beasts. WHS backup is pretty much automatic and uses deltas - Vista's is manual and I don't believe offers incremental updates.

While your solution (Vista + network copy) would preserve your data it has two problems I an see;

1. Your documents will only have the latest revision. If you find something was corrupted a month ago it could be very awkward to recover it. Vista's shadow copies may help though.
2. As soon as you install a program/patch/config your Vista backup is out of date and needs remade, or these repeated if you reinstall.

These might not be dealbreakers and indeed Vista's backup is pretty decent, it's just nowhere near as good as WHS. In my opinion WHS leaves almost everything else standing, you can be sure this tech will be in the "big brother" server versions shortly.

Not entirely certain here, but start the IIS console on another machine and tell it to connect to the laptop? The normal management console snap-ins all support remote operation.