You may use standard operating system or third party datacenter tools to back up the Windows or Linux operating environments that contain your applications according to your site policy.
The ClearPath Forward fabric does not support bare-metal restore of partition images. If the original partition image no longer exists, you commission a new partition image, and then recover the environment of the previous partition image onto the new partition image. When backing up your Windows or Linux operating environments, you do not need to back up the EFI system partition since it is automatically created when you commission a new partition image. For more information on backup and restore tools, see Examples of Tools for Backing Up and Restoring Application Operating Environments.
Note: The EFI system partition is a disk partition on the boot volume used by ClearPath Forward partition images and other machines that adhere to the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). It contains the boot loader, device drivers, system utilities, and other information specific to the current environment of the particular partition image.
If you intend to restore your operating environment on a different partition image, be sure that you do not include the EFI system partition from the previous partition image (if it was backed up) as part of the restore process. It may contain invalid information for the new partition image.
Note: If you previously made changes to files on the Linux /boot/efi partition of the original partition image (for example, operating system kernel changes, initrd and efi configuration file changes, or driver updates), you may need to reapply the changes to the new partition image after the restore process.