Software RAID 1

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Hi Guys

What is the best method to have you /boot partition also part of the mirror ?

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Kitty
 
Only way to achieve that would be if the RAID lives in the BIOS or uses a hardware controller and then the OS supports the driver for it.
 
When you create the mirror set, the mirrored disk is formatted and mirrored.

You need to do nothing.
 
@kitkat+

You failed to mention what OS. Here is an example of software RAID1 for WinServer 2012

One way to avoid the risk of data loss is to set up a RAID configuration. In Windows Server® 2012, you can set up disk mirroring (RAID1) for the operating system volume using tools included in Windows Server. Such a disk mirror does not prevent corruption or other errors, so you should also back up data regularly. This document details the steps to follow to set up the operating system volume mirror for both BIOS-based and UEFI-based systems.

In Windows Server® 2012, as long as you have one additional hard disk, you can set up mirroring (RAID1) for the operating system volume using only tools already built into the operating system. No special software or hardware is required.

To do this, you create a software mirror (RAID1) of your operating system. Once the mirror is created, the operating system and your data will be present on both boot disks, and the system software will keep data and changes to the operating system (such as registry updates) in sync on both boot disks.

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I do this on my ubuntu server vm (local play with) but u need to manually do things with the latest 20.04
 
cueball said:
Our servers are built with LVM on top of RAID (1 or 1+0) and we don't do anything special for /boot, its just a subdir of the root LV.
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How did you set up RAID , are you using software or a RAID controller ?
 
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