backup sql server 2008 and restore to sql server 2005

I'm maintaining a few projects for different customers. Some of them user Sql Server 2005 and others use 2008.

On my dev-machine, I can only install one of them (2005 is OK for both in 开发者_JS百科development).

However , If I need backup 2008 database back to my machine, it can not be restore to 2005.

I wonder how to deal with this situation?

From a technical point of view, you can definitely install two instances of SQL Server (even different versions) on a single machine:

• Install SQL Server 2008 as default instance and access it as (local)
• Install SQL Server 2005 as SQL2005 instance and access it as (local)\SQL2005

Either do this, or get a second machine (physical or virtual)