Both full and partial recoveries are supported. The media library can be searched using a range of criteria to find the required volume. This increases the speed of disaster recovery by enabling the correct volume to be immediately found. A wide range of manual devices, stackers, jukeboxes, and tape libraries are supported. Backup jobs are monitored and an alarm is generated if a backup job has failed or has stopped for some reason, for example, if a new tape needs to be loaded.
Access control is based on the concepts of assignable capabilities and classes of user.
For example, in the case of backup tasks, operators and help-desk staff can be limited to running backup jobs, checking log files, offsite media management and displaying media library information. Senior operators may be granted access to the recovery facilities and monitoring of backup jobs. Only systems administration staff is, perhaps, given permission to add or change backup jobs and media details. Extensive audit trails are produced for all events. These also are available as separate modules.