Hard drive crashed - can I recover my photos and music?

Hi, the external hard drive that I stored all my music and photos on has crashed (I had a backup but it got damaged through a separate accident - not having a good week). I'm trying to recover lost data from the failed HDD but am not having much luck.
My ipad has about 70% of the photos from my HDD and most of the music. Is there a way to transfer music and photos off my ipad back onto a HDD?
Any help would be awesome. Thanks,
Lee

You can redownload purchased music. But macs cannot backup to iCloud, thus cannot restore from it. Instead, restore your time machine backup to the new drive. everything will be as it was before.

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