Lost Data Using "ZFS Volume Manage" instead of "Auto Import"

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iceman2321

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I'm really tired, sorry ahead of time if I'm missing important information. I have googled and searched the forums but have not had any luck.
I used the ZFS Vol Manager in place of the Auto Import Function and consequently cannot access the data on the drive. My goal was to Auto Import the one drive (the drive was not part of a raid) and then copy the data to the raid.

I've searched for a while about recovering data from a zpool but nothing seems to help. I wouldn't think that it would be that hard considering that I did not mark the data as new when exporting in the first place. Lastly, in many posts about recovering data, there is usually a step that includes:
Code:
zpool import -D -R 

I have not been able to try this because Freenas says that there are not any pools to import even though the following code shows otherwise. Just to be clear about the posted code. The "int2tb" is the drive i'm trying to read data from.

Code:
root@FREENAS] ~# zpool list
NAME      SIZE  ALLOC  FREE    CAP  DEDUP  HEALTH  ALTROOT
tosh2tb  1.81T  1.68T  138G    92%  1.00x  ONLINE  /mnt
[root@FREENAS] ~# zpool import
  pool: int2tb
    id: 11903752324053622528
  state: ONLINE
action: The pool can be imported using its name or numeric identifier.
config:
 
    int2tb                                        ONLINE
      gptid/96205ddd-20d6-11e3-a625-bc5ff483e835  ONLINE


Thank you In advance.

system information:
Hostname FREENAS.local
Build FreeNAS-9.1.0-RELEASE-x64 (dff7d13)
Platform AMD A4-5300 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics
Memory 32666MB
 
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dlavigne

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Unfortunately, Volume Manager erases all of the data on the selected disks as it does a format. The differences between importing and using Volume Manager are explained in the Volumes chapter of the FreeNAS Guide.
 
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