Restore backup failiure

Hey
I restored my iPhone to factory settings, then when I tried to restore the latest backup - it said the bakcup fialed and was corrupt.
I've tried it a couple of times, tried restarting itunes etc, all to no avail.
I've then ended up without a useful backup at all.
I started out with a series of backups, one form a month ago, one from two weeks ago and one from this morning (which was failing).
Now all I have are the two old ones and then several from this afternoon (it seems to have taken bakcups every few minutes form my blank iphone).
I assume that the backup form this morning is lost, and I am restoring from the one two weeks ago.
If anyone can suggest a way to get the missing bakcup back and workign I'd appreciate teh advice - although I don't hold out much hope. I've checked the iTunes backup folder and there isn't a folder matching this morning's date and time (assuming the last few characters are the date and time).
I have to say that I've found the whole situation extremely annoying - I was diligently backing up my iPhone on the basis that, well, I'd have a backup. Now I've had to try and actually use my backup I'm having to use a backup that is two weeks out of date.
Coupled wiht the fact that app updates seem to break constantly (and the only solution I can find is deleting and reinstalling the app - losing all data) I'm finding the iPhone a less and less dependable device.

Stop SHOUTING!
If you are referring to the encryption passcode for the backup, there is no way to reset or remove the password.
Either the user remembers the password they set or the backup is useless.
If you did not set a password, the backup is corrupt. Delete it.

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Select your iDevice in the iTunes.
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The iCloud backup includes most things except non-iTunes purchased but the iTunes backup does not include those either. For what iCloud includes see:
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I do not want this to happen, as with previous experience iTunes doesn't restore a mirror of what the iPhone was when it was backed up as is the case with iCloud backups.
What I am trying to do is, as I've found a method on Youtube, there is an application where I can delete all the multimedia saved in my 'iMessages' so clear up some space. As doing that manually through the phone would take a lifetime. The method is to backup on iTunes, then using the backup created, importing that into the application then deleting the messages through that then restoring the phone using that amended backup.
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iCloud should overwrite your phone with the data stored in your account, preserving your newer data. However, to be sure I would go to Settings>iCloud and turn data syncing to Off before restoring the backup. Then, after restoring the backup, turn the data syncing back to on, and when prompted about Merging with iCloud, choose Don't Merge. This will ensure that the data in your iCloud account overwrites the data on your phone (which is your goal).
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Hi,
Desparately need help please!
I accidentally deleted a note that was quite important, though not the end of the world if I lost it. Then I looked at iTunes and there's the 'Restore Backup' button under 'Backups'. So I thought, OK why don't I try click that and see if the note is in the back up.
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[oracle@rs1pre92dvdbsa01 ~]$ rman target sys/c9nv9sd9t9f11e@mdm11 auxiliary /
Recovery Manager: Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production on Fri Oct 29 10:41:38 2010
Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
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RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
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arch/
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ASMCMD [+mdmdg2/mdm1/autobackup] > ls
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ASMCMD [+mdmdg2/mdm1/autobackup/2010_10_29] > ls
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