Lesson learned, and now I will be much more careful and build some scripts ahead of time to test out automating recovery and other things like this.
Thank you, I needed confirmation. My search results were not as conclusive as that post.
Ubuntu server, with ssd os drive + a raidz2 pool with 6 disks.
After a processor upgrade I had to swap the ssd with one of the zfs drives because of boot issues, and when I booted, it did not re-create my pool.
I was dumb:
1. I ran a zpool create command, instead of learning the proper...