Restoring on a 3gs 8gb from a 4s 16 gb

My iphone 4s 16gb was recently stolen & i bought a 3Gs 8gb for now.  I had luckily backed up the 4s the day before. Was using about 12gb with most of that being music. When i restore from the 4s backup to the 8gb 3Gs, what will happen since the backup was over 12gb but 3Gs holds only 8gb...?

That will not work.  You don't have enough capacity to allow restore to take place.

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