<Dl> <Dt> Administration Console </Dt> <Dd> </Dd> <Dd> The backup administrator's backup server GUI management and near - term reporting tool . Its window shows the selected backup server, with a standard toolbar on top . A sidebar on the left or navigation bar shows the clickable categories of backup server information for it; each category shows a panel, which may have a specialized toolbar below or in place of the standard toolbar . The built - in categories include activities--thus providing monitored backup, past backups of each individual source, scripts / policies / jobs (terminology depending on the application), sources (directly / indirectly), sets of backups, and storage devices . </Dd> <Dt> User - initiated backups and restores </Dt> <Dd> These supplement the administrator - initiated backups and restores which backup applications have always had, and relieve the administrator of time - consuming tasks . The user designates the date of the past backup from which files or folders are to be restored--once IT staff has mounted the proper backup volume on the backup server . </Dd> <Dt> High - level / long - term reports supplementing the Administration Console </Dt> <Dd> Within one application's Console panel displayed by clicking the name of the backup server itself in the sidebar, an activities pane on the top left of the displayed Dashboard has a moving bar graph for each activity going on for the backup server together with a pause and stop button for the activity . Three more panes give the results of activities in the past week: backups each day, sources backed up, and sources not backed up . Finally a storage pane has a line for each set of backups, showing the last - modified date and depictions of the total bytes used and available . For the application's Windows variant, the Dashboard acts as a display - only substitute for a non-existent Console . Other applications have a separate reporting facility that can cover multiple backup servers . </Dd> <Dt> E-mailing of notifications about operations to chosen recipients </Dt> <Dd> Can alert the recipient to, e.g., errors or warnings, with a log to assist in pinpointing problems . </Dd> <Dt> Integration with monitoring systems </Dt> <Dd> Such systems provide backup validation . One application's administrators can deploy custom scripts that--invoking webhook code via script hooks--populate such systems as the freeware Nagios and IFTTT and the freemium Slack with script successes and failures corresponding to the activities category of the Console, per - source backup information corresponding to the past backups category of the Console, and media requests . Another application has integration with two of the developer's monitoring systems, one that is part of the client - server backup application and one that is more generalized . Yet another application has integration with a monitoring system that is part of the client - server backup application, but can also be integrated with Nagios . </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> The backup administrator's backup server GUI management and near - term reporting tool . Its window shows the selected backup server, with a standard toolbar on top . A sidebar on the left or navigation bar shows the clickable categories of backup server information for it; each category shows a panel, which may have a specialized toolbar below or in place of the standard toolbar . The built - in categories include activities--thus providing monitored backup, past backups of each individual source, scripts / policies / jobs (terminology depending on the application), sources (directly / indirectly), sets of backups, and storage devices . </Dd> <Dt> User - initiated backups and restores </Dt> <Dd> These supplement the administrator - initiated backups and restores which backup applications have always had, and relieve the administrator of time - consuming tasks . The user designates the date of the past backup from which files or folders are to be restored--once IT staff has mounted the proper backup volume on the backup server . </Dd>

Describe different types of information storage and backup systems