[grimjack00]

It was, however, a step up from the shared network drive with a bunch of zip files.

[politician]

Debatable. You would come into work in the morning and find that VSS had been corrupted and needed to be restored to an earlier backup. This was a common occurrence.

[prepend]

That the lovely common occurrence of someone checking out 1000 files and going on vacation.

I preferred just a normal folder, rsync (or some nt utils equivalent) and backups.