If you have reliable file locking you can implement a journal-only with multiple users without needing a server. You have to take care of write errors and deal with partial writes, which can be tricky with a binary format. A long time ago, I implemented one based on XML. Some non-Windows file-severs (citrix?) did not have reliable file locking, causing corrupted files.
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If you have reliable file locking you can implement a journal-only with multiple users without needing a server. You have to take care of write errors and deal with partial writes, which can be tricky with a binary format. A long time ago, I implemented one based on XML. Some non-Windows file-severs (citrix?) did not have reliable file locking, causing corrupted files.