摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus, a management apparatus, an image forming system, and a program with failure resistance for enabling print processing even if some of storage units are disabled.SOLUTION: An image forming apparatus comprises: a printer identification information acquisition unit 92 for acquiring the identification information of a user; a distributed file system management unit 90 for acquiring the data pieces of print data not stored in a storage device 8-2 of own apparatus, the print data being divided into data pieces and stored in plural storage devices including the storage device 8-2 installed in other image forming apparatuses in a distributed manner; and an image output unit 104 for printing based on the acquired data piece. The distributed file system management unit 90 acquires a divided data piece by acquiring at least one data piece from among the data pieces stored over the plural storage devices in duplicate and associated with the identification information. |