What happened to my backup??

I just installed newest software for my itouch; at first I was informed I didn't have enough harddrive space to do a backup, and went to a lot of trouble and time freeing up the necessary space. Finally got it, it said it was backing it up, did the update, asked me if I wanted to restore and I said yes. Now the itouch is totally empty and everything I read says just to right click the itouch and select restore from backup however this is not an option for me. Where did it go??

It doesn't show up in Disk Utility, and it is not discoverable from the Time Machine setup.
I've restarted, shut off and on, etc. It was displaying in the Time Machine list of discs but erroring out on actually doing a backup. I removed it to see if I could reconnect, but now I can't even find it.
All cables are plugged in securely.
My guess is this is the is related to the 10.9.2 update.
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