I don't see how this helps the OP at all, he wants to be able to view the edited photos, writing edits to XMP doesn't achieve this goal. Those backups should be on a different hard drive from where your working images are located. Or you can have Lightroom created a second copy of your images as it imports them. You can get software that will automate the backup process. That does not involve Lightroom in any way. I suggest that you create some sort of plan for backing up your images. That backup DOES NOT back up your images. Look through your menu options and find the catalog settings and you can choose how often you want to backup your catalog.
It is essential that you backup that catalog on a regular basis. The catalog is a database that is populated with image objects to show your images. You need to understand that the only file Lightroom opens is the catalog. Someone else may have a different view of this option. It is my understanding that doing so can affect the performance of Lightroom. This will write many of your changes (but not all) to XMP files for your raw images and will write the changes to other file types as well. There is an option in the Lightroom Catalog settings that you can choose that says, "Automatically write changes to XMP files".
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