How to read Proxmox ZFS disks from a crashed server

f.somenzi

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Hello, a server on which Proxmox installed with ZFS was installed died suddenly. How can it be possible to read the contents of the disks? We should retrieve some files stored in a VM on it.
Thank you
 
From my experience you might be able to simply attach the drive and use ZFS import -f. Not sure how Proxmox would handle a second identical ZFS pool though - my experience here is doing this with secondary storage drives, i.e. dedicated VM storage that Proxmox itself was not installed on
 

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