Users may access only those procedures assigned to them and all duties are audited. This provides management control and enforces policy at all levels. For example, if an administrator needs to remove the previous night's backup tapes before today's backup is run, a warning may be issued two hours before backup is due to start if the duty to remove those tapes has not been performed. If the duty has still not been performed a half hour later, an alarm could be generated. It enables automating routine backup tasks or delegating sensitive procedures to less-skilled staff.
Key staff is freed from mundane and repetitive tasks without loss of control or security of data.
Backups can be run centrally or each host can initiate its own backup to a local device. 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.