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# Automation

In most cases, the end user will likely *not* be using the UI to manually checkpoint/restore workloads - as most end users are researchers and not the sysadmins that have access to the UI.

Cedana offers a seamless automation where the user does not have to think about the underlying checkpointing at all. The preemption signal is intercepted, which triggers a checkpoint. Cedana then automatically requeues a restore into the same queue that was submitted.

This video highlights for example how the automation works without touching the UI:

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Some things in the pipeline to help as well:

* Notification via email to users on successful checkpoint/restore
* Restoring with the same jobID as was initially submitted
* Support for modifying restore properties (changing assigned SLURM resources)
* Support for restoring into a different queue