Apologies for asking, but I couldn't find this particular situation only similar ones with key differences. I was working on fixing my FreeNAS server as something had corrupted on it disabling jails, plugins, and other functionality, possibly due to a HDD breaking, which I did manage to get its data saved from that one. But that taking several days of dealing with slow transfers to save it and my plan was to get things functional again and begin working on the backup server. And in my tired state I disconnected a Pool of a drive I was using trying to just disconnect a drive when setting up a new copy of FreeNAS.
The data is not deleted, but the pool config is gone. It was just a single drive in the pool though and only the config that is gone, which is what differs from anything I found searching. I tried zpool import -D, but perhaps I used it wrong as it found nothing. My usual recovery software is more Windows centric and doesn't do network drives, but I've considered buying some software for it, or trying to plug it into a Linux box to recover. I did try going back to the corrupted Freenas config what didn't have the deleted pool to see if I could recover it there, but no luck, but I do still have that as an option to try.
I've not done much yet for fear of making it worse, but I have a feeling I'm just out of luck.
Mobo: B450 Aorus M
CPU: 1600x (6 core version)
Ram: 16gb (32 but 16 given to Freenas)
HDD: 4tb Drive so it was either a WD Red or an HGST Deskstar (I'm fairly sure it was the Red)
Network: Desktop 82574L Intel Chipset NIC (motherboards built-in is realtek which I've seen in the past have issues with Freenas)
tl;dr: Tired, accidentally deleted Pool config, but not the data on a 1 drive pool
The data is not deleted, but the pool config is gone. It was just a single drive in the pool though and only the config that is gone, which is what differs from anything I found searching. I tried zpool import -D, but perhaps I used it wrong as it found nothing. My usual recovery software is more Windows centric and doesn't do network drives, but I've considered buying some software for it, or trying to plug it into a Linux box to recover. I did try going back to the corrupted Freenas config what didn't have the deleted pool to see if I could recover it there, but no luck, but I do still have that as an option to try.
I've not done much yet for fear of making it worse, but I have a feeling I'm just out of luck.
Mobo: B450 Aorus M
CPU: 1600x (6 core version)
Ram: 16gb (32 but 16 given to Freenas)
HDD: 4tb Drive so it was either a WD Red or an HGST Deskstar (I'm fairly sure it was the Red)
Network: Desktop 82574L Intel Chipset NIC (motherboards built-in is realtek which I've seen in the past have issues with Freenas)
tl;dr: Tired, accidentally deleted Pool config, but not the data on a 1 drive pool