ITunes Backup for iPhone

I backup my iPhone 4 regularly.  When I open up the restore from backup in iTunes I can clearly see the latest backup PLUS two others - one about a month ago and one about 2 months ago.
What happened to all the backups I did in between my backup today and the one done 1 month ago (since there were several).
Thanks everyone

Old news. Plus just as easy to not mess with configuration and just click the little X on the status when it says backing it, it will cancel it and move on to syncing. Thus leaving it still able to back up when you have time to allow it since you REALLY SHOULD backup now and then.

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