zfs - I did something stupid. Help please.

[Konstantinnovation]

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 restore command. It created an empty raidz2 pool.
2. After that I hosed my OS drive in the process, and lost any zfs configuration files.

I have reinstalled ubuntu, and now have access to all of the drives again.
It cannot find existing pools when i try zpool import -f
Is there a way to manually recover or am I totally screwed?

-Thanks in advance!

 

[drescherjm]

Is there a way to manually recover or am I totally screwed?

I think the latter.

Here is a mailing list post about this:
https://www.mail-archive.com/zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org/msg09931.html

 

[Konstantinnovation]

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.