Reverting to old backup

My phone was in for repair and so I backed it up before sending it away, however when I attempted to restore it the cable came out and when I reinserted it the phone synced with my itunes and created a new backup of my wiped phone and therefore seems to have erased my previous backup that has my contacts and such.
Is there a way to get this back?

Hopefully, you also have an iCloud backup? If so, you can use that to restore from.
Unfortunately, with iTunes unless you archive your back ups, the next one overwrites the current one.

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