[zfs-discuss] recovering data - howto mount rpool to newpool?

2010-03-03 Thread Erwin Panen
Hi, I'm not very familiar with manipulating zfs. This is what happened: I have an osol 2009.06 system on which I have some files that I need to recover. Due to my ignorance and blindly testing, I have managed to get this system to be unbootable... I know, my own fault. So now I have a second

Re: [zfs-discuss] recovering data - howto mount rpool to newpool?

2010-03-03 Thread Richard Elling
You need the -R option to zpool import. Try the procedure documented here: http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Troubleshooting_Guide#Resolving_ZFS_Mount_Point_Problems_That_Prevent_Successful_Booting -- richard On Mar 3, 2010, at 2:32 PM, Erwin Panen wrote: Hi, I'm not

Re: [zfs-discuss] recovering data - howto mount rpool to newpool?

2010-03-03 Thread Ian Collins
Erwin Panen wrote: Hi, I'm not very familiar with manipulating zfs. This is what happened: I have an osol 2009.06 system on which I have some files that I need to recover. Due to my ignorance and blindly testing, I have managed to get this system to be unbootable... I know, my own fault. So

Re: [zfs-discuss] recovering data - howto mount rpool to newpool?

2010-03-03 Thread Erwin Panen
Richard, thanks for replying; I seem to have complicated matters: I shutdown the system (past midnight here :-) )and seeing your reply come in, fired it up again to further test. The system wouldn't come up anymore (dumped in maintenance shell) as it would try to import both rpool systems (I

Re: [zfs-discuss] recovering data - howto mount rpool to newpool?

2010-03-03 Thread Ian Collins
Erwin Panen wrote: Richard, thanks for replying; I seem to have complicated matters: I shutdown the system (past midnight here :-) )and seeing your reply come in, fired it up again to further test. The system wouldn't come up anymore (dumped in maintenance shell) as it would try to import both

Re: [zfs-discuss] recovering data - howto mount rpool to newpool?

2010-03-03 Thread Erwin Panen
Ian, thanks for replying. I'll give cfgadm | grep sata a go in a minute. At the mo I've rebooted from 2009.06 livecd. Of course I can't import rpool because it's a newer zfs version :-( Any way to update zfs version on a running livecd? Thanks for helping out! Erwin Ian Collins wrote:

Re: [zfs-discuss] recovering data - howto mount rpool to newpool?

2010-03-03 Thread Ian Collins
Erwin Panen wrote: Ian, thanks for replying. I'll give cfgadm | grep sata a go in a minute. At the mo I've rebooted from 2009.06 livecd. Of course I can't import rpool because it's a newer zfs version :-( Any way to update zfs version on a running livecd? No, if you can get a failsafe