Is it safe to use Redundead in a HD?

[Rui Guerra]

I all,

I need to recover some R3D files that I mistakenly deleted from my external raid system (and empty the trash).
I've tried Data Recovery but without success (none R3D files recovered).

Will Redundead work in an external HD (instead of a RED camera media) and is it safe?

EDIT: I've just used Redundead (found in another thread that it works) but after I put my password there is a message saying:

"Warning: FAT32 recovery failed. Attempting old REDundead recovery method.
This will only work if just R3D (no ProRes / DNX) was recorded!"

Anyone knows what's happening?

Thanks,

 

[Tom Gleeson]

Your RAID is unlikely to be formatted in FAT32 ? I would guess your out of luck but not certain. Very interesting you get the dialogue box saying if proxy’s are recorded your out of luck. I also assume if you are using the new UDF format your also stuffed? Really time to update Redundead.

 

[Rui Guerra]

It worked in spite of the warning message.
It took several hours, but unfortunately I've run out of space in the destination folder before the files that I was looking for were recovered. The source drive have 10 TB, and the destination folder have only 1,20TB, so I guess still many R3D files could be recovered if I had enough free space, which is not the case.

The problem here is REDundead tries to search for R3D files in ALL the source device, in this case a 10TB one!
Anyone knows if there is a way to narrow the scope of REDundead so it only searches inside a determined source folder?

Thanks!

 

[Rui Guerra]

It just occurred me that maybe REDundead recovers all the files from a drive and not only the deleted ones. So I went back and analyzed the files it has recovered and ALL of them were existing files in that drive!
Until I run out of space, there was not even one deleted file recovered :-(


So, which is the best way to rescue R3D files that have been deleted from an external HD (that also have many other non-deleted R3D files in it)?

Anyone? RED Team?

Thanks,

 

[Anthony Berenato Jr]

It just occurred me that maybe REDundead recovers all the files from a drive and not only the deleted ones. So I went back and analyzed the files it has recovered and ALL of them were existing files in that drive!
Until I run out of space, there was not even one deleted file recovered :-(


So, which is the best way to rescue R3D files that have been deleted from an external HD (that also have many other non-deleted R3D files in it)?

Anyone? RED Team?

Thanks,

Because of the way REDUndead works (as intended for REDMags that either have been formatted by accident or have had an error), it is written to recover everything. It wasn't really written to be selective, sadly. You're going to have to either find a large enough drive to let the command copy over to, or consistently check and delete whatever footage it recovers that's not necessary. Hopefully if you have the date when the footage was shot, then you can probably tell if its the clip you're looking for from the clip name.

Easiest thing might be to get another large storage device and let your computer run for nearly a full day.

 

[Elliott Balsley]

Try a third party recovery software, like Disk Drill. You'll have a better chance of choosing files to recover.

 

[Rui Guerra]

Thanks, Anthony.
I'll try again this time deleting the recovered files that I don't want while REDundead works, to release more space.

Elliott,
I've started by testing the free version of Disk Drill but after it detected some R3D files to recover, it will only do so if I pay. That will not be the major problem but with all the included spam/publicity in the site (like Mac Keeper), I was not sure if it was secure or the way to go, and uninstalled the free version.