Right now I have my repo on my local drive. In order to back it up, I have to copy .hg to a window's network drive.

At Is it a good idea to put Mercurial Repository in shared Network drive?, Lasse Karlsen said the repo shouldn't be on a shared folder on a network server because "mercurial cannot reliably hold locks in all situations".

Would this still be an issue when the repository is only updated by a single user?

If so, can someone explain to me why the corruption happens?

A while back our IT had problem setting up a mercurial server.

I am very fond of mercurial (it has a great interface and is very easy to work with), but if it's going to be such a pain in the neck to set up for multiple users, I am willing to look for something else. Does anyone have any suggestions (with reasons)?

I am looking for a revision control program that has the following attributes: 2. Good interface (allow you to easily see revision and changes to the code over multiple revisions). 3. Work as a local repo or a network repo. 4. IT will feel comfortable installing on their network.

Thanks, Stephen