I am moving my freenas box into a proxmox vm however I have a zfs system that was set up natively in freenas. I would like to take that zfs pool and import it into the freenas VM is there a way that I can do this without losing my data and have it fully accessible or have it attached directly to the VM. I may be asking the impossible but any help with this problem would be great thanks in advance.
[SOLVED] zfs import directly into VM
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Thanks but I tried to SSH into the VM and attach it but it does not find the zfs filesystem. However I can SSH in the root pve and it will attach there which is the problem as its attached as a big pool for access to all the VMs.
Yes I was able to import the pool however I had to take a different approach. ZFS has a replication process over SSH that allows you to take a snapshot of the dataset and send it to another pool or host. I have two empty zfs pools already attached as storage which worked out fine except it required me to transfer all the data from the pool with all the data to a different pool manually within the VM. Basically I cloned my drive and transferred it through ssh I knew about this replication process but I was trying not to do it because it requires me to move 3TBs.