Getting ZFS pools back.

[Willem Jan Withagen]

On 28/04/2018 20:43, Richard Yao wrote:
> What is the output of ‘zpool import‘ with no arguments?

If I boot thru aa mem-stick....
# zpool import
#

So, empty line
In the mean time I rebuild the system.

Was able to retreive the data by a convoluted incantation of
'zpool import -fmNF' or something like that.
Made a full backup, and started fresh.

--WjW


>> On Apr 28, 2018, at 11:42 AM, Willem Jan Withagen <wjw at digiware.nl> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I had this server crash on me, and first it just complained about not being able to boot because it could not find the guid.
>>
>> Now I cannot even import the pools any longer.
>> Althoug zdb -l /dev/ada0 still gives me data that indicates that there should be a ZFS pool on that partition.
>>
>> Any suggestions on how to get the pools/data back online?
>>
>> Help would be highly appreciated, since restoring it from backups is going to quite some work.
>>
>> Thanx,
>> --WjW
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