How do you restore a backup from preferences

HI Everybody:
I am trying to restore a backup from iTunes from my backup. However, it's telling me that the backup is not valid. So I am in preferences, and under Preferences>Devices there are all my backups...
How do I restore from one of those ones?
Thanks in advance
Paul

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