Restore destroyed CT subvolume on ZFS

[mproxk]

I did a restore of a CT that uses also a mount point. There is a warning but I did not expect that it will touch the mount point. After CT restore, the subvolume is destroyed.

zpool history data2 -il



2022-07-04.15:53:54 [txg:9806] destroy data2/subvol-121-disk-0 (165) (bptree, mintxg=1) [on silver]
2022-07-04.15:54:02 zfs destroy -r data2/subvol-121-disk-0 [user 0 (root) on silver:linux]
2022-07-04.16:30:22 [txg:10215] scan setup func=1 mintxg=0 maxtxg=10215 [on silver]
2022-07-04.16:30:37 zpool scrub data2 [user 0 (root) on silver:linux]

I want data2/subvol-121-disk-0 back.

There is something like "using special zpool import with -T option" but not sure how to use it

I run a scrub manually at the end.

 

[Pifouney]

Hi,

zfs destroy cannot be cancelled .... if you haven't backup, sorry to say that it's dead

 

[leesteken]

ZFS is Copy-on-Write, so it might be possible (by using -T to select an older version of the filesystem). If you have written to the filesystem afterwards, it becomes more unlikely to be recoverable. I'm sorry but I have no experience with it and I don't know how to use the -T option.
EDIT: If nobody knows how to do it here, you might want to try a ZFS or *BSD (FreeBSD has support ZFS for a longer time) mailinglist or forum.

 

[mproxk]

I tried but nothing is happening, no writes after that, just scrub.

I was scared that after I did "move" instead of copy the subvolume from ZFS disk without compression to a ZFS disk with compression, that the free space went from 4GB to 90GB.

But the volume function fine and no corrupted files, I will do file compare from a backup later.