Photos missing from camera roll

About two months worth of photos are missing from my camera roll.  Don't know when this happened, only noticed it recently.  I would have thought they were backed up to the iCloud as I have back up on, but have no idea why they aren't reappearing in my phone if they are.  Any idea how I find out where they have disappeared to?

Yes, new backups will overwrite old ones. Backing up to iCloud is a backup. to be used for disaster recovery. It is NOT permanent storage for photos. Likewise, photo stream is NOT permenent storage. You need to be extracting the photos to your computer like you would from any other digital camera and storing them someplace safe.

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