Does Windows 7 Home Premium support backing up to a network share

Question

Windows Vista Home Premium supports automated back ups to a network share, so I would assume the Windows 7 Home Premium would also have this feature. However, several pages on the Microsoft site make it not-so-clear to whether the feature made it into RTM.

Can anyone with Windows 7 Home Premium installed confirm whether or not you can set an automated backup to write files to a network drive? Failing that, can you trick it by using a network mapped drive?

(I currently have the Ultimate RC installed and am trying to figure out which RTM version to by)

Solution

Having just installed Home Premium onto a Virtual PC, I can confirm that not only does Home Premium not support backing up to a network share, but that mapped network drives do not show up in the "Backup Location" list.

Comments

[Richard Szalay]

I linked to that page in my question. If you look at the link in Alex's answer, it implies the opposite. I have done research into this, I simply want someone with HP installed to confirm.

[Paxxi]

sorry about that, missed the link in your post.

[Richard Szalay]

No worries. I'd say you're probably right regarding Windows Home Server. Anyway, I'm installing HP (legit) onto VPC now so I'll see if it works.

[nhinkle]

This is not the same as its built-in backup. The built in backup tool can do full image backups; sync toy cannot.