[zfs-discuss] Recover files from overwritten zpool?

[Kees Nuyt]

On Sat, 09 May 2009 21:36:19 +0200, Stig <stigto at cotse.net>
wrote:

>To make a long story short, after a Solaris reinstall I needed to access 
>a disk from the previous install. I realize now I should have done a 
>zpool import, but instead I recreated the pool, thinking this would 
>bring my file system back. I destroyed the new pool, but other than that 
>I have done nothing to overwrite data.
>
>Is it possible to recover the data from the old pool?

Yes, restore your last backup to a zfs filesystem in a newly
created pool.
If you don't have a backup, there is no way, because the new
pool has overwritten all labels, ueberblocks and pointer
blocks of the original pool.

>--Stig
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  (  Kees Nuyt
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