Systems and methods are disclosed for information management, which are performed substantially autonomously by a client in the absence of a storage manager connection, and which are also streamlined to operate efficiently when the storage manager connection is restored. Related systems and computer program products are also disclosed. A first dipole directs the first set of beamlets in a first direction to a first side of an article. During restore operations, copies of the data stored in the CSR is accessed from the CSR instead of from secondary storage, improving performance.