1. Clean install of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
   1. Set for automatic install of security updates
   2. Services enabled:
      1. DNS
      2. OpenSSH
      3. Samba

1. Set the local network to static IP address
   1. Modify the /etc/network/interfaces file with a static entry:

      # The primary network interface
      auto eth0
      iface eth0 inet static
              address x.x.x.x
              netmask 255.255.255.0
              network x.x.x.x
              broadcast x.x.x.255
              gateway x.x.x.1
              # dns-* options are implemented by the resolv.conf package, if installed
              dns-nameservers x.x.x.1
              dns-search lattice.net

2. Restart the network:

   sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

The moment of truth. How hard would it be to configure a raidz array out of the five 2TB drives? Um, two lines!? These instructions came from here

1. Install the zfs code:

   sudo apt-get install zfs-fuse

2. Turn our hard drives into a raid array:

   sudo zpool create media -m /storage raidz /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sde /dev/sdf

The update repository appears to be broken, so I might need to re-install the OS on hydra. According to a post I found, all I need to do is “import” the pool.

• http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=16807 ← a couple posts down
• With all drives installed and spun up:

  zpool import

• Just import your pool now!

  zpool import <poolname>

With all of the drives in the system, just run zpool import.
That will scan all the drives for ZFS metadata, and will show any pools that can be imported.
Then you just import the one you want via zpool import <poolname>. 

AH, would make more sense to use a these drive IDs since it would be consistent:

“You should add your drives using the /dev/disk/by-id directory. That way the drive will be picked up consistently regardless of the device node in /dev/. ”

• 2013.09.30 - Looks like we might have had a drive failure. I know in the past, one of the drives was flaky and would not show up because of a cable issue (swapped cables, and it worked).
• Drive identification: (just pasting in the drives in the raid alive

  # status as of today 2013.09.30
  #sudo zpool status -v media
  
    pool: media
   state: DEGRADED
  status: One or more devices could not be opened.  Sufficient replicas exist for
  	the pool to continue functioning in a degraded state.
  action: Attach the missing device and online it using 'zpool online'.
     see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-2Q
   scrub: none requested
  config:
  
  	NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
  	media       DEGRADED     0     0     0
  	  raidz1-0  DEGRADED     0     0     0
  	    sdb     ONLINE       0     0     0
  	    sdc     ONLINE       0     0     0
  	    sdd     ONLINE       0     0     0
  	    sde     ONLINE       0     0     0
  	    sdf     UNAVAIL      0     0     0  cannot open
  
  errors: No known data errors
  
  
  #ls /dev/disk/by-id/ -la
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   9 Sep 30 15:44 scsi-SATA_ST2000DL003-9VT_5YD24VFW -> ../../sde
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   9 Sep 30 15:44 scsi-SATA_ST2000DL003-9VT_5YD2J987 -> ../../sdc
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   9 Sep 30 15:44 scsi-SATA_ST2000DL003-9VT_5YD2K8XW -> ../../sdb
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   9 Sep 30 15:44 scsi-SATA_ST2000DL003-9VT_5YD2K90G -> ../../sdd

1. Install apcupsd

   sudo apt-get install apcupsd

2. Configure the configuration file: /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf

   UPSTYPE net
   DEVICE xx.xx.xx.xx # your master local apcupsd server

3. Set the ISCONFIGURED flag in /etc/default/apcupsd to yes
4. Restart the daemon

   sudo service apcupsd restart

Linux, Apache, Mysql and PHP as shown here

NOTE: According to the comments on that page, you could do all of these with this: (but I'm not that lazy, I can copy and paste a few lines)

sudo tasksel install lamp-server

sudo aptitude install mysql-server mysql-client

sudo aptitude install apache2

1. Install php5

   sudo aptitude install php5 libapache2-mod-php5

2. Restart the apache server

   sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

NOTE: I could not get this to work, the content always came up with some kind of error. uShare worked right out of the box with no fusing, so I'm going to use that for the UPnP server.

Will use NFS to share up the storage directory.

1. Grab the NFS server package

   sudo apt-get install nfs-kernel-server nfs-common portmap

2. Configure portmap

   sudo dpkg-reconfigure portmap

3. And restart (this did not work btw)

   sudo /etc/init.d/portmap restart

4. Modify our exports

   sudo nano /etc/exports
   # here are some example entries
   # hal
   /storage/video                 10.0.0.5(ro,fsid=7,no_root_squash,async,subtree_check)
   # nmt
   /storage/video                 10.0.0.13(ro,fsid=7,no_root_squash,async,subtree_check)

5. Restart the NFS server

   sudo /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server restart

1. Stole the /etc/samba/smbd.conf from Mythbuntu and made it read only.

uShare is a media server uPnP media server (very light weight)

1. Install the service

   sudo apt-get install ushare

2. I manually edited this file first, there were some options that don't come up when you do the “config”

   sudo vi /etc/ushare.conf

3. Proper configuration is done with this

   sudo dpkg-reconfigure ushare

I would like a local ftp client so that we can move files around as fast as possible

1. Install vsftpd

   sudo apt-get install vsftpd

2. Modify the /etc/vsftpd.conf file

   sudo nano /etc/vsftpd.conf

   1. Modify so we can write files to the server

      write_enable=YES

sudo apt-get install jed