[CS-FSLUG] NI: Office 12: Is that your spreadsheet on my server?

[David Aikema]

If you have RAID storage and a cluster of machines using a distributed
filesystem (eg. GFS or GPFS), this becomes somewhat less of a concern.
 it all depends on how much money you feel like investing in the
system.

You may also be able to grab a static view of the spreadsheet that you
may be able to view and update offline, and then merge the changes
into the online spreadsheet later (there are a lot of version control
systems out there that allow this sort of thing).

Dave

On 10/24/05, Nathan T. <celerate at gmail.com> wrote:
> It can have practical applications I guess, but having all the files on one
> server is also a bad idea since a catastrophic loss of data will then be
> possible with the failing of one server. Backups can be made every week,
> every night even, but hours of data from everyone on one server is still a
> lot to lose in case of a hardware or software failure.