How do I find my iPhone backup in Time Machine?

I accidentally erased my Sleep Alert information from my iPhone.  My iPhone is backed up into my iMac, which is backed up by Time Machine.  How do Ifind my Sleep Alert information in Time Machine?
I use Mavericks, but the search engine has sent me to Mountain Lion.  sigh

If you haven't backed up your iPhone since erasing your Sleep Alert information you should be able to restore it via iTunes:
However, that will restore all of the iPhone, not just that one setting.
The backups are stored your Home/Library/Applications Support/MobileSync/Backup folder.  This is what's in the backup folder:
One of my backups contains 4800+ files.  There's no way to know which of those files contain the settings you're looking and Spotlight can't index the parent folder so a Spotligh search will be fruitless.

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