Windows 10: After transferring files to my backup drive, can deleted files be restored?

I was paying $1.99 for 50 Gb of storage and chose to transfer all my files from 9 years of my son's life photos collection and did one by one by year. It turned out after, I checked all files on back up drive and all it seems fine! Well, my files got deleted after 30 days. wasn't worried. I had my photos on my backup drive. Don't know what happened?? All the files I had transferred from those 5 years' worth of photos, It copied the same file like 100 hundred times! I was beside myself!! it has the year the photo was taken but, going into the file they are all the same photos!!! I lost my son's graduation photos!

Is it possible to restore the One Drive deleted photo? They had to be somewhere? This is very strange why I would get same file a 100 x?

Does anyone know? Thank you. PS. As is, I don't trust any transfer of files anymore. I will leave it on my computer instead.

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Deleted file restore software.

Shute I never thought about system restore. But its been more than a week now, don't know if I can go back that far. But even then will it put back user files?

 

Deleted file restore software.

Oh.

So your running the backup software from the server and not the computer.

Yep I see whats happened. Just for the future (althought I am sure you wont make the same mistake again) make sure you select and option that says "if it cant find the file, DONT delete". If it doesnt have that option...switch to SynbackSE.

An FYI: difference between incremental and differential is that differential copies all new / changed files since the last full backup......incremental copies all new / changed files since the last backup no matter what it was (incremental/full/differential).

Now to get your files back:

Tried a system restore on the server?

 

Deleted file restore software.

I want a good File or HDD recovery software. Free would be ideal but cheap good ones would be fine.

I used Cobian backup to backup all my virtual servers and test files. I wanted to build raid, so I copied 2 x 160GB drives (total 80GB) to my server which has 1TB using the software. After copying the files I built raid on those 2 drives moving to another machine. Now when I go back to my server all the files are gone. Probably my mistake, didn't quiet understand the software and hit the wrong settings.

Now my question is can I get back all those files? I haven't formatted the drives on my server.

I tried couple of trial software, but they need huge amount to activate and restore those files.

Anyone know of free or under $30 please let me know.