New Phone doesn't recognize iCloud backup photos!!

My iPhone lock button stopped working so I took it to the apple store and they swapped it out for a new one thankfully since it was under warranty. The gentleman said that it would take about 20min to upgrade it to ios7 and transfer the infor from my previous retore that ws in iCloud so that I could just do that at home if I wanted to. I opted to go ahead and do it from home since the Apple Store had sooo many people in it. I came home and updated to iOS7 and selected my backup from the night before which was 2.7GB. Everything looked likee all my apps are on my phone, but none of the data really. And my photo stream had showed 814 pictures the night before and 314 photos on my camera roll. Currently there are only 94 photos on my phone!! How do I get ALL!! Of the back up to restore to my phone please??
Thank you.

Photo stream servers only keep photos for up to 30 days then they are deleted. These photos will remain on a device's photo stream folder, but if the stream is turned off and then on again, only the currently stored photos are downloaded back to the device. This is what happened to you.
Always move photos from a photo stream group to another album for safe keeping.
Using icloud backup to secure photos is risky for a number of reasons. Always sync photos to a computer for archiving.

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