Of course not, I would take a dozen files at a time and we'll work on this as we can. It's been broken for a decade, I don't think we're in any hurry. It's more a passion than necessity, at this point, and any help I get I am greatly appreciative of. In the meantime I'm searching old backups to see if any of the files can be recovered from data I don't know I have.
After we moved this time and it broke our backup system I built a new one. We backup "soup to nuts", literally everything, nightly to the local /backup drive and remotely to a machine off site. Data loss isn't part of our vocabulary anymore even though the first ever event I experienced was not my fault nor could I have prevented it. Heck, if all else fails around here I build a GUI for our backup system and we go into business.