I think a transcription of the errors you are seeing would be helpful  
here.  Also, remember that you can set your ZFS filesystems to be read- 
only while you work to resolve this.

blake/

On Dec 30, 2007, at 12:54 AM, Aaron Berland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm sorry, I'm new here.  I am desperate for help.
>
> I have been running Solaris build 64n with a 3 drive raidz storage  
> pool.  These were on 3 internal SATA seagate drives and I ran fine  
> with this since summer.  Tonight, I purchased 3 Seagate USB drives  
> and was attempting to migrate the data from the internal array to  
> the USB array.
>
> Long story short, I unintentionally added the USB drives to the  
> original internal zpool (I was hoping they would mirror each other,  
> but messed that one up!)  Anyway, I got the idea of unplugging all  
> of the USB drives right away before any data was written to them (In  
> theory that all data would still be in tact on the original internal  
> array.)  Anyway, that obviously brought the whole zpool offline and  
> so I plugged the drives back in.  That caused some sort of problem  
> and my Solaris box rebooted.  Now, basically, 2 of my 3 USB drives  
> are showing data errors and Solaris tells me I need to destroy the  
> pool and start over again.
>
> Is there any way to salvage my data?  This whole thing was to have  
> another copy of the data but now it's blowing up in my face and  
> portions of the data are not backed up.  (I know I know... pls don't  
> lecture!)
>
> I would be very grateful to anyone who can help!
>
> Aaron
>
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