How do you restore to backup

how do you restore to last backup can only find factory restore

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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