I have to recover data from a server running Ubuntu 13.10 for a client.
I need to find out what data is on this machine and then recover it to an external drive. The drives that were accessible via the network showed that the shared drive (950GB) was nearly full, but clients could only see 3 GB (which they backed up prior to removing the server). I have what they were given as the administrator ID and password and I can log in using that info. And so far, that's about as far as I got!
I tried to load some kind of GUI to make it a little easier. I found and ran this command:
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
After screenfuls of data flashed by for a few minutes it appears it was trying to download something and could not. My guess is maybe the server had a fixed IP and isn't working properly on the current network. Lots good examples seemed to use an interface using:
sudo service network-manager start
But that turned out to be an unrecognized service.
After more research I decided to try to manually edit the network configuration file:
gedit /etc/network/interfaces
edit /etc/network/interfaces
gedit
wasn't installed and the second gave an error about permissions (again using the only admin ID/PW they have) but then I realized it didn't really matter what I typed after edit - it still simply said I don't have permission, so may be another misleading message.
So it seems I can't really do much without a proper GUI. Any tools or interfaces I try to load seem to need internet access (seems not much is actually included with this O/S). And I can't even see much less fix the network configuration.
If anyone out there has any suggestions on how to proceed to it would be greatly appreciated.
cat /etc/network/interfaces
to just see what's in that file, andsudo nano /etc/network/interfaces
to edit it. Runlsblk
to see what the current disk layout is,df -h
to see what the disk usage is. Also, Ubuntu 13.10 is an end-of-life release, you aren't installing anything on without following How to install software or upgrade from old unsupported release?. And your client needs to start hiring better people.nano
to edit files in a Terminal environment.