Re: [zfs-discuss] Recover data from detached ZFS mirror

2011-07-28 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Judy, The disk label of the detached disk is intact but the pool info is no longer accessible so no easy way exists to solve this problem. Its not simply a matter of getting the boot info back on there, its the pool info. Your disk will have to meet up with its other half before it can be bo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recover data from detached ZFS mirror

2011-07-28 Thread Judy Wheeler (QTSI) X7567
Hi Cindy, Well, the other half of the zfs mirror is on a truck via snail mail to another location. We thought we were saving a copy of the root disk when we did a zfs detach. We didn't know it would remove the zfs label information. Is there a way to get the disk back to a "bootable" state? Th

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recover data from detached ZFS mirror

2011-07-28 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Judy, Without much to go on, let's try the easier task first. Is it possible that you can re-attach the detached disk back to original root mirror disk? Thanks, Cindy On 07/28/11 13:16, Judy Wheeler (QTSI) X7567 wrote: Does anyone know where the "Jeff Bonwick tool to recover a ZFS label"

[zfs-discuss] Recover data from detached ZFS mirror

2011-07-28 Thread Judy Wheeler (QTSI) X7567
Does anyone know where the "Jeff Bonwick tool to recover a ZFS label" is? The old link was: http://www.mail-archive.com/zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org/msg15620.html But it does not exist anymore. I have a zfs detached disk that was part of a root mirror and I need to boot from it. Thank you for

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recover data from detached ZFS mirror

2010-12-02 Thread maciej kaminski
Thank you, it is exactly what I needed. Trying to compile this thing on a SPARC system :) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recover data from detached ZFS mirror

2010-11-26 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 12:45:16AM -0800, maciej kaminski wrote: > I've detached disk from a mirrored zpool using "zpool detach" (not "zpool > split") command. Is it possible to recover data from that disk? If yes, how? > (and how to make it bootable) Take a look at this thread: http://

[zfs-discuss] Recover data from detached ZFS mirror

2010-11-25 Thread maciej kaminski
I've detached disk from a mirrored zpool using "zpool detach" (not "zpool split") command. Is it possible to recover data from that disk? If yes, how? (and how to make it bootable) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing lis