My Mac that was running 10.11 with ZFS 1.7.2 has suddenly died. Luckily, the drives I was using for my one zpool seem to be okay, and I have a fairly recent Time Machine backup of the boot drive. I also have another Mac ready to takes its place with a clean install of 10.13. I went ahead and download the 1.9.4 DMG and installed the appropriate High Sierra package. But before going any further, I thought I'd pause and ask the community what the best path going forward.
Should I be restoring certain files from my TM backup? Or should I start fresh from the installation guide:
https://openzfsonosx.org/wiki/Install
What's the best way of ensuring my new install recognizes and uses my old zpool?
edit:
All the data is safely backed up. If I had to to, I could start completely from scratch and copy the data over to a new zpool. But I'd MUCH prefer to avoid that scenario.