Missing Backup file

I created a backup file from the Backup application(not Time Machine). I erased my hard drive and restored Lion. When trying to restore from backup, Lion is not recognizing the file. I also cannot see the file through finder. I can see older backups on a different external hard drive. But I cannot see the newest backup.
Please help.

Well I'm looking for help with Backup 3 - precisely the app you showed and are referring to.
How come it seems to have disappeared from the face of Apple?
I still use it to backup key files to an external drive.
But looking at what I am backing up tonight, it only seems able to add new files to the Backup from folders within my User folder and not from the bulk of items on my hard drive which are not contained within my user folder.
Does this make sense?  I was so surprised to be limited like that.
Weirdest of all is that from back in the .mac days when Backup also backed some of my stuff up into that early Apple cloud solution, my single scheduled backup DOES include files and folders from outside the confines of my User Folder.  And I'm afraid that if I somehow delete them from the list of files to be backed up, I will never be able to put them back.
I have not tried a "restore" of any of these files.  But I'm just tiptoeing around this and am disturbed to find so little support for the application on Apple's site.
Do you know what's up?
Steve

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