IPhone 4s Update Failed - Backup Issue

Hi there,
I decided to update my iPhone 4s today to the 6.1.3 update, but I got an error saying that there was some kind of issure and my iPhone was in DFU mode. I unplugged it and plugged it back in and it seem to of sorted it out but it was syncing whilst I was trying to set it up through the phone, which created 2 new backups. The phone has set itself up now with my old apps but nothing else is on the phone AND I can't seem to update from my previous backups I did before I did the iOS update. They have been overridden as I have checked the MobileSync folder. I did my intital backups before the iOS update at around 12PM and the only 3 updates in the folder are; 1:20PM (1.3GB), 1:27PM (7.07MB) and 1:42PM (7.07MB).
It's not allowing me to pick the 1:20PM backup which I'm guessing has most of my data in so how can I get around this issue?
Thanks in advance.

Update to this.
I've tried to use a backup extractor and the backup is corrupt. Luckily I've still got all my photos and videos as I back them up regularly but I've lost all my contacts, texts, user data etc.
This wouldn't be the first time this has happened to me or other people and I know that's no ones fault here but I hope Apple has a team that scouts these forums regularly to take note of issues. The update process needs to be more fail-safe and people need to be aware on backup overwriting and so on. These phones and devices aren't cheap and I know they make a good amount of profit off them so they could inject a bit of that in to changing this daunting and unavoidable process.

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