Failed to start zfs-import@zfs.service

[alex01763]

Hello everyone, I need urgent help on this one. I think I searched everywhere I could but couldn't find anything that fits my situation.

My homelab server gave me a warning yesterday and I saw that one of my ZFS storages was labeled missing. Then soon after the entire system went unresponsive and I had to power it off manually. I thought it was a hardware problem because it sometimes did this when it had a loose cable somewhere so I did a full maintenece on the machine, but just now when i booted it up again, it's giving me this error that says [FAILED] Failed to start zfs-import@storage-with-the-probelem.service - Import ZFS pool storage-with-the-probelem on screen. After that, the OS boots up, but the web UI is not available, along with the zfs storage. Here's what I've tried, I'll call the storage name 'storage' :

• Switching cables - no effect
• Switching ports - no effect
• zfs list - can't find the storage
• systemctl status zfs-import.service zfs-import-cache.service zfs-import is masked, zfs-import-cache enabled but says Condition: start condition failed - ConditionFileNotEmpty=/etc/zfs/zpool.cache was not met
• cat /etc/zfs/zpool.service - nothing
• journalctl on zfs-import@storage.service says zfs-import@storage: Failed with result 'exit code'
• zpool import storage - cannot import 'storage' no such pool available
• zpool import - no pools available to import

I didn't do anything that's related to editing or dealing with the zpool cache that I found online because I don't know what that is and what that does. I can't afford to lose this drive due to some stupid mistake. Can anyone help me?