Can you restore a time machine back-up more than once?

Hi,
About a week ago I tried restoring an old time machine backup to check that it worked - and it did. I now want to restore that same backup again. It's still there on the external drive that it was backed up onto, but no longer has a time stamp associated with it, and it no longer allows me o restore it. Any help would be appreciate d.

I was not aware that such a limitation existed. Try this: (disable Time machine temporarily
Click on the Time Macine HDD, and open ''Backups. backupdb' folder. You then might see another folder with you name on it. Open that folder which should show you a series of folders with a series of dates. See EX.
Select the folder with the date where the data that you want to retrieve resides. Open that folder and keep opening folders until you get to the item you wish to restore. Drag the item to your desk top.
Ciao.

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