Can I back up one laptop to a drive connected to another laptop?

I am trying to find a way to use Time Machine to back up my husband's Mac Book Pro to the external hard drive connected to my Mac Book Pro. Any tips? Both computers are running Mavericks. The drive is attached to my MBP via Firewire 800. From his MBP, I can connect to my computer with File Sharing and access the drive, but it doesn't mount on the desktop and I can't choose it as a destination for the back up.

If you just want a backup over the net, I would suggest using CrashPlan (free to use if you are backing up to your own storage). This works on the same system, over the home LAN, and over the Internet. The data is transferred securely.
With respect to your storage on your spouses disk, start a new post thread with a suitable subject to get that resolved.

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