Backup + lost music and videos

I just purchased and installed the 2.0 software upgrade and lost all of my music and videos from my iPod Touch. I was under the impression that the backup that it performed was actually backing up what was on my iPod and that I wasn't actually going to lose everything. Did I completely misunderstand what was going on? Some of the songs and videos that I had on my iPod are on an external hard drive that has been corrupted and I don't know if I'll be able to even save them. I'd like to think that I haven't completely lost everything. Is there someway to access this "backup" that was performed? I'd like to think I didn't just pay ten dollars to wipe out my ipod.

Unfortunately, you pretty much paid $10 to wipe out your iPod. From what I have heard on these boards, the people who did get everything back during the restore were those folks who had all of their media in their local iTunes. Folks like you and me who had content on our iPods that was NOT in the local iTunes did not get back any media during the restore.
For us, the backup only backed up settings, notes, that sort of stuff. Did you get back your settings, at least? If you did, then I would say there's no way to get back the music. However, if you didn't get back anything - no notes, settings, bookmarks, etc - then maybe the restore didn't use your backup for some reason, and it's possible to find that backup and re-restore with it. Hopefully someone else can answer that bit for you, as I'm not sure how to select a specific backup to use for a restore. I know it's been posted about on here, though, in the past couple of weeks.

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