Import pool with missing Logs & Cache Drives

Hi Community!

I really hope you can help me today. I am in the process of moving from TrueNAS Core to TrueNAS Scale. TrueNAS Core was previously running on ESXi as a virtual machine. Everything was working fine, I just decided to run TrueNAS Scale on bare metal. Unfortunately, my main NAS pool had cache and log devices attached to it and I didn’t keep the data on the drives… they have been wiped. I only kept the 10 SSD’s where my data resides.

When I perform zpool import, I receive a degraded status due to missing devices (logs & cache). I use the -Ffm to force it in with missing devices. It states it cannot create mount, due to read only. Then it says the import is successful. I see the entire structure of the pool, but I cannot seem to get to any of the data.

Does any one have some commands I can try to mount this (even if read only) so I can harvest some of the data off… or is it a complete loss?

SSD is the pool name-- info pasted below.

I have tried the following commands:

sudo zpool import -m -o readonly=on SSD

sudo zpool import -Ffm SSD -o readonly=off

output below:

truenas_admin@truenas[/proc]$ sudo zpool import

pool: SSD

id: 538354488965494353

state: DEGRADED

status: One or more devices contains corrupted data.

action: The pool can be imported despite missing or damaged devices. The

fault tolerance of the pool may be compromised if imported.

see: Message ID: ZFS-8000-4J — OpenZFS documentation

config:

SSD DEGRADED

raidz3-0 ONLINE

sdl2 ONLINE

sdg2 ONLINE

sdm2 ONLINE

sdi2 ONLINE

sdj2 ONLINE

sda2 ONLINE

sdd2 ONLINE

sdk2 ONLINE

sdf2 ONLINE

sdn2 ONLINE

cache

gptid/5969a7c2-d561-11ed-9072-98b785002de8

logs

4823051775776779444 UNAVAIL

truenas_admin@truenas[/proc]$ sudo zpool import -Ffm 538354488965494353

cannot mount ‘/SSD’: failed to create mountpoint: Read-only file system

Import was successful, but unable to mount some datasets

truenas_admin@truenas[/proc]$ sudo zpool list

NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CKPOINT EXPANDSZ FRAG CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT

SSD 17.4T 3.96T 13.5T - 16G 15% 22% 1.00x DEGRADED -

Test 472G 6.68G 465G - - 0% 1% 1.00x SUSPENDED /mnt

boot-pool 28G 2.77G 25.2G - - 0% 9% 1.00x ONLINE -

Welcome to the forums.

Wow, that does not sound like fun. I’m not the expert here to give advice but I’m certain someone will shortly.

When posting the output of commands, in order to preserve their format, which can be critical, please use the code ‘</>’ button above. The will greatly help.

Enjoy the forums.

I’ve been able to resolve the issue!

I used the following command:
zpool import -f -R /mnt SSD

This created the mount and allowed for me to copy everything of to a safe space while I rebuild.