Deleted external hard drive with time machine

[Paradiseapple]

Hello friends,

today I made a big mistake. When I tried to make a backup of my main hardrive in time machine I chose my Thunderbolt-Raid as a backup drive and deleted/formatted it. I realized my stupid mistake after some seconds and disconnected the Thunderbolt drive but I am afraid 30Tb of data are lost. The backup had not really started yet.

On the drive are Final Cut project, all my footage and clips ...

What can I do? I started to scan the drive with "Stellar Data recover" but interrupted it after 2 hours because the lady from recovery company told me it could damage and destroy the data. They want 9.000.- Euro for the recovery. Unbelievable.

The scan of the drive with "Stellar" would take 20 hours. Shall I try again?

What is your advice to a stupid guy like me?

Thank you

 

[BrianBaughn]

Can any data recovery method actually reconstruct something like a Final Cut project?

Just wondering.

 

[Paradiseapple]

Thank you so much for your answer. After the "Stellar" could nicht handle with my Raid and only showed 712Mb of recoverable data I tried EaseUS and this shows my folders in the preview now. The scan is 60 about hours.
The scann will be done in another 16 hours from now. I already ordered another drive for the recovered data. If the data is still there - what do I have to do to safe the structure of my Final Cut project when I move it to the other Raid? (Same question like Brian)

 

[Paradiseapple]

By the way - how do I create an image of my drive?

 

[ignatius345]

Thank you so much for your answer. After the "Stellar" could nicht handle with my Raid and only showed 712Mb of recoverable data I tried EaseUS and this shows my folders in the preview now. The scan is 60 about hours.
The scann will be done in another 16 hours from now. I already ordered another drive for the recovered data. If the data is still there - what do I have to do to safe the structure of my Final Cut project when I move it to the other Raid? (Same question like Brian)

I'd be pretty doubtful about this. I ran a data recovery program maybe 10 years ago to pull something off a drive I'd accidentally reformatted (similar to what you're going through) and ended up with a bunch of randomly named folders containing various files. I think a lot of what I wanted was technically there, but the folder structure had mostly been lost.

 

[Paradiseapple]

Tomorrow I will see the result

 

[posguy99]

If this data was so important, where was the backup of *it*?

 

[HDFan]

f this data was so important, where was the backup of *it*?

Yes, what is your 3-2-1 backup strategy? Only one of these can be TM.

 

[Paradiseapple]

Hello friends! Yes, I confess!! I was silly enough to have no complete backup for this raid as it contains 30Tb of Final cut projects and media libraries, Original Media and sample libraries for music production. The samples libraries I could download from the companies again but the minimum I hope is to get back the video files for my two one hour final cut projects. In the best case I would get back the complete libraries, events and projects on final cut. The question is: ist it possible to safe and recover the paths of my final cut projects?

 

[HDFan]

I was silly enough to have no complete backup for this raid as it contains 30Tb of Final cut projects and media libraries,

Backblaze on line backup will do 30 TB for $7 a month. I back up 50 TB with no problem. It will take some time to upload however, which could be months depending on your upload bandwidth.

 

[Paradiseapple]

thank you for the advice