- Incompatible version of Zentyal (Zentyal 3.0 was accidentally installed on this 12.10, causing the samba not functioning)
- The electrical leak in the office due to DP box does not have proper earth line installed. Damn it, the whole rack is covered by electricity, and I got an electric shock! Luckily it was not at high current else all devices and I would have died =_=!
Well.. after hours of troubleshooting, I could not bring the server up and running again. It halted at different stage of loading, sometimes failed to load Samba, sometimes failed at Checking Quota...
I do suspect it is caused by the Zentyal... but time is running out. I rush back to home, taking my laptop SSD* installed with Ubuntu 12.10, together with as many as HDD I could found available for the backup**, and plugged into the server.
Voila! Now I'm inside my laptop Ubuntu, and by running dmraid -r, I could now see the RAID under name isw_xxxxx (isw is a prefix for Intel RST). By running dmraid -ay (activate with silent mode YES), I can now see the whole RAID in Nautilus.
I'm backing up those file now... hopefully the files and directories in the server are still in good condition. Losing a single files will be disaster. Cross finger!
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* Why SSD? Because the Ubuntu server was installed using dmraid and Intel RST (Rapid Storage Technology), so SSD can work well as most of the time SSD is used under AHCI. SATA drive that previously installed without AHCI would fail to boot up.
** Please make sure you use a reliable HDD for the backup. You won't like to fail the second time where you could be only having once chance to perform the recovery.
*** Regarding the mdadm and dmraid, here are some good reads:
*** Regarding the mdadm and dmraid, here are some good reads:
- https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FakeRaidHowto
- http://raid6.com.au/posts/mdadm_advantages/
- http://www.sourceware.org/lvm2/wiki/DMRAID
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