STORE and TurboSTORE/iX Products Manual (B5151-90003)

18 Chapter1
Introduction
Hardware Requirements
NOTE The TurboSTORE/iX 7x24 True-Online Backup product does not imply 24x7
(24 hours, 7 days a week) support. 7x24 True-Online Backup represents the
availability of the data that this product offers by not having to shut down
business critical applications for backups. Customers should consult their SE
for levels of support with this product.
Hardware Requirements
All versions of TurboSTORE/iX work with any hardware configuration supported by the
MPE/iX system.
When using the basic Store and Restore functionality available in the fundamental
operating system (FOS), the minimum hardware requirement is at least one disk drive
and at least one tape drive. The tape drive can be a magnetic tape drive, DDS drive, or
StorageTek cartridge tape drive.
FOS STORE also allows you to store to more than one device at a time, either serially or in
parallel. When using parallel or serial devices for a backup, up to 16 devices can be used in
parallel. Within each parallel device pool, up to 8 serial devices are supported. Each
parallel device will run as a separate process. Multiple processor systems, therefore, will
see an even greater increase in performance when using parallel backups. A general rule is
to use one less parallel device than there are processors. For a four-way MP system, this
would mean three parallel devices.
NOTE From MPE/iX Release 6.5 onwards, TurboSTORE/iX II and TurboSTORE/iX
7x24 True-Online Backup do not support magneto-optical devices..
Parallel Restore
(RESTORESET)
NO YES YES
Optical Device (MOSET)NO NO NO
Online Backup (ONLINE) NO NO YES
7x24 True-Online Backup
(ONLINE=START, END)
NO NO YES
Store to Disk NO NO YES
Restore from Disk NO NO YES
Labeled Tapes YES YES YES
Table 1-2. Feature Comparison
Feature STORE/
iX FOS
TurboSTORE/iX II
B5151AA
TurboSTORE/iX 7x24
True-Online Backup B5152AA