Separate 2 disks from the same ZFS pool (no mirroring)

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At the time I thought it was a good idea to use ZFS for my multimedia disks. Large disks that are going to contain a lot of large files. I want to change these disks to another format that is well integrated in the Linux kernel to avoid the problems I am having now.

My question is about 2 HDD disks that are joined (not mirrored) in the same pool:

pool: multimedia2
state: ONLINE
config:
NAME                                    STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
multimedia2                             ONLINE       0     0     0
7527cfd0-ff91-ef4c-8339-e50e8ea6f88a  ONLINE       0     0     0
48ab2779-9338-e943-ab90-363ace47d27e  ONLINE       0     0     0

They are very large disks (in total about 31 TB) and I don’t have a third disk to be able to backup all the content of both disks at the same time. But if I could separate them, I could backup each of them to the other while reformatting the disk to another file system.

Is it possible to separate and keep the data on each disk?

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Just to make sure I understand:
This is one pool striped over two disks?
Do you not have a full backup? (this can be dangerous as you loose all your data if any one disk fails)

You can split a mirrored pool into two (see for example: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/819-5461/gjooc/index.html)

I very much doubt you can split a striped volume.

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Yes, it is.