How do you restore a previous backup?

I can't figure this out for the life of me. I've found them in the Edit, Preferences, Sync menu but there's no option to roll back to a previous saved state. Anyone know how to do that?!?

One thing that might help out.
When itunes is open and the iphone is connected to the computer, the iphone should show on the left side of itunes under devices.
Right click, or control click, on the iphone under devices.
A little menu should pop up and you should see an option to restore from backup.
hope this helps.

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Restoring an iCloud backup requires you to first erase your iPad. If you have any newer data that you want to save you'll need to do that first. Then go to Settings>General>Reset, tap Erase All Content and Settings, go through the setup screens on the iPad and when given the option, choose Restore from iPad backup.

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Pages wasn't working so someone told me to delete it and redownload it. Of course, our school told us not to use Cloud since there wasn't much space and now I lost most of my notes. I think I backed it up before I deleted it though but when I reconnected by iPad, it rebacked up everything and I don't know how to restore from previous backups. Help please!

You may not have any previous backups if iTunes overwrote the only backup that you have.
Launch iTunes on your computer (do not connect the iPad yet) and go to Edit>Preferences>Devices. Check the box at the bottom that says - Prevent iPods, iPhones and iPads from syncing automatically. You can also see if you have multiple backups for the iPad in that window. If you do - Click OK and quit iTunes. If you don't have another backup, just turn on auto sync again. There is nothing that that you can do if you don't have another backup.
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You don't you must restore your phone first and then you will have the option to restore from your backup.
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Ok, this might sound confusing.
I had hardware malfunctions with my first iphone4. I just got my new one, and I think I accidentally deleted the last backup that I did on the old one. Is there anyway to bring it back? My contacts came back, as did my saved message shortcuts and a photo stream, but I still can't find my videos or old text messages. Is it possible to retrieve te last backup done if it has been deleted?
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Easy but verified fix!
I had this problem with my 3Gs. After trying the backup a few times unsuccessfully, here's what worked for me:
1-Restarted my phone
2-Once I connected and it tried to backup, I canceled the backup message
3-Went to the phone's setting in iTunes (namely the Apps tab) and saw that suddenly the capacity bar was full rather than empty again
4-Removed some of the apps I didn't want on anyway
5-Hit "Apply" in the lower right corner
6-After the sync was complete, the phone still was not restored. However, all I had to do then was back it up from the most recent backup (which came when I did step 5)
7-Voila! The phone was back. Oddly, iTunes gave me the same error message at the end but my iPhone was working fine with iOS5!

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iTunes only keeps one normal backup per iOS device. As you've found out, its an incremental backup in that only data that has changed is actually backed up or overwritten. You can view available backups under iTunes>Preferences>Devices. Any backups listed that are time/date stamped are backups from restore points. These backups are not overwritten. Do you maintain a backup of your computer data? If so, you might be able to retrieve a prior iPhone backup from your computer backup.

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