Macrium and Optane

I was wondering if anyone could shed light on this. The best operating procedure I could find for using Macrium reflect Free to image a disk that is accelerated (cached) by an Intel Optane module is to dis-able the Optane acceleration before making an image.
This is from the Intel forums, by other users, as far as I can see there is no official response from Intel or Macrium for this situation.
Now the question is, if you use the Macrium scheduled back-up does this mean you have to dis-able Optane just before the back-up kicks in, every couple of hours/days etc that you have scheduled?
The reason I ask is that Intel states that if an Intel Optane module fails, the drive being accelerated is useless, i.e you can not ever use it again due to the pairing service.
So if you make a disk image with Optane enabled, then the Optane module fails you cannot apply that disk image to a new hard disk because it wont work? Because the pairing files would not be synced?
So does this mean that all forms of scheduled backup on an Optane accelerated disk are pointless?
The Optane system apparently save config info to a min 5mb unallocated section of the paired hard disk, Macrium will not include that space in an image will it?
Does the Optane module physically move certain boot/system files to its cache and write new environmental paths to point to itself?
Sorry for such a long question but it really is confounding me.

A very good point, I have created a Macrium usb boot drive while in Windows and no drivers were copied to the boot disk other than needed for UEFI boot and wireless. No special drivers for Intel RST or Optane (even tho they exist in package cache as fully installable format).
Using this boot disk with Optane enabled or disabled boots the PC and allows me to image my disk partitions without issue(so no warnings about a hardware cache drive potentially holding needed files).
I have got into the habit of disabling Optane, booting form USB (Macrium disk) and imaging under the assumption that any files Optane messes with are back on the hard disk while it is disabled.
I have successfully imaged then restored an image and booted into Windows without issue this way. I have not tried to restore an image while the system has a live/enabled Optane from a previous OS install.
A lot of mass box shifters are selling machines with a small SSD and a large HDD paired with Optane (Acer, Dell etc) then the owners of those machines maybe get directed as was I to forums like this that (rightfully, imho) tell them to ignore Windows backup and use imaging software instead.
I foresee quite a few instances of confused and upset computer users, if they image without disabling, Optane first.
If it turns out that to have a true backup image, usable to apply to a new HDD if your current one fails, you need to constantly disable Optane each time then scheduled imaging is going to be a right technical PITA.
Also the constant formatting and re-writing of the Optane module (needed after each disable/re-enable cycle) is going to drastically reduce the modules lifetime.
I have had my system for 10months from new, I have made an image once each month, which I don't consider excessive yet my Optane module is already down to 98% life as reported by Intels own utility.

Thankyou. I will look into that after work.
Could be interesting to see...although the issue would be, I know there is a pre-installation RST driver(which I've never needed even doing a clean install, since 1803 ...not re-applying of a Macrium image). But that doesn't link to the Optane module during install of the OS, just I think a replacement for the standard Win10 SATA interface driver.
So for what is in essence an enhanced version of DOS (as near as we get nowadays) with the Macrium boot disk, I don't think I could make use of it for the purpose of testing imaging an Optane accelerated disk and applying to a fresh blank disk.
But we will see.
Life really was much easier in the good ol DOS days.

Yeah, checked those links, it really seems there is no documented way to access the Optane system from a boot disk other than the OS boot disk (and Optane fires up with the loading of the OS), although it also seems to decrease the BIOS boot time, no idea how.
Cannot for the life of me work out how to get Macrium to include the RST install time driver.
And why is there BIOS support for Intel RST....is this a 3 way config issue?
Another reason for my interest is that I was following Khari's (sorry if I spelt it wrong) tutorials on using DISM to image and deploy Windows images.
He seemed to think an image made that way would work regardless, but the fact DISM works under DOS (modern version of it) would the same apply, that you would be missing essential config settings if using DISM on an Optane enabled system, because DISM would not image the unallocated space at end of drive where Optane stores it settings?

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Ok, quick update. I installed an RTX 2060 (nvidia), works extremely well, however I tried the v-sync Adaptive setting which caused a problem of black screen (unable to do anything) after exiting full screen video, obviously a problem in the drivers.
Only option was to power down with the power button.
On start up on the screen before even the bios logo screen there were several messages about incomplete shutdown, rebuilding cache and several progress messages.
This leads me to believe that Optane enabled images would not work when applied even to the original machine because the files Optane caches would not be included in the image since the Optane module does not appear in the Macrium list of partitions/drives to be imaged.
I've a feeling the same is true for images created with DISM.

Having read thru your links, scouring the Intel forums I think I will just continue by disabling Optane once a month to image my system. The potential for problems seems too great to risk at the moment.
I guess Optane is still too new and niche to have gained much trouble shooting info beyond just installing it and what happens when it doesn't work.
I also think its a bit of a dead duck as a cache system what with the price of SSD's coming down almost every month and emerging SSD's getting faster and bigger.
I also notice Intel is using their Optane technology built into newer SSD's, which seems odd when you think it was initially introduced as a method to speed up mechanical HDD's.
At least maybe people will see this post and become aware that if they have an Optane enabled system their backup (imaging wise) solutions could be problematic.