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Hi Uwe,
if the necessity is to run the restore command(or it's equivalent) with admin privileges, then I'm not sure what can any SUDO profile achieve, since at that point any user data/binary/configuration can be overwritten and in some cases executed. Unless the restore option to original system is taken out of equation completely, SUDO seems like exercise in futility, and this is not specific to IBM Spectrum Protect but all such products.
I'd think that the protection you may be able to achieve would be limited to protecting the password and maybe disabling the ID from interactive login. Then the users would be limited to intended use of the ID only. And again I think that this would be common for all the products.
Alternatively you may want to consider using normal backup-archive client, and then allow users to restore using their own ID, at which point they should be restricted by access control of the system(they would be only able to write to locations their user has rights to, and would only be able to restore data that are theirs).