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Best practice for fresh install on UEFI with multiple disks?

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Hello folks,

New machine, new opportunity to get up to speed with the contemporary
best practices for multiple disks on UEFI.

The behavior I'd like -- and, I suspect, the behavior we'd all like --
is the machine stays bootable and data is preserved if any disk fails.
Specifically, what I'd like to do if a disk fails (or starts warning
me of possible failure) is shut the machine down at my convenience,
replace the disk, have it re-boot, and re-populate the new disk with
data in the background.

For data, BTRFS works well for my use case, has for some time, and has
been tested on disks dying in the last few years.  However, this is
the first time I have a chance to deal with this for /boot on EFI
partitions, which can't be put on BTRFS.

So, what are folks doing these days to mirror /efi and /boot?
Googling shows that Ubuntu can boot off RAID directly here, but Debian
cant quite yet without manually rsync'ing directories.

Anybody have a firm solution here?

Cheers!

-- 
Boyan Penkov

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Best practice for fresh install on UEFI with multiple disks? Boyan Penkov <boyan.penkov@gmail.com> - 2024-09-19 02:30 +0200
  Re: Best practice for fresh install on UEFI with multiple disks? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-09-19 04:00 +0200
    Re: Best practice for fresh install on UEFI with multiple disks? Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> - 2024-09-19 12:10 +0200
      Re: Best practice for fresh install on UEFI with multiple disks? Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2024-09-20 04:30 +0200
        Re: Best practice for fresh install on UEFI with multiple disks? Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> - 2024-09-20 09:50 +0200
          Re: Best practice for fresh install on UEFI with multiple disks? Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2024-09-20 12:20 +0200
            Re: Best practice for fresh install on UEFI with multiple disks? Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> - 2024-09-20 12:50 +0200
              Re: Best practice for fresh install on UEFI with multiple disks? Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2024-09-20 20:20 +0200
                Re: Best practice for fresh install on UEFI with multiple disks? Boyan Penkov <boyan.penkov@gmail.com> - 2024-09-30 16:20 +0200
                Re: Best practice for fresh install on UEFI with multiple disks? Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> - 2024-09-30 18:30 +0200
                Re: Best practice for fresh install on UEFI with multiple disks? Boyan Penkov <boyan.penkov@gmail.com> - 2024-11-01 01:10 +0100

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