Where can I find calendar library in mountain lion time machine backup

Hi together,
I just had a series of new hardware and problems with the software. In december I had to buy a new MBP as the motherboard of my old one was damaged. So now, with mountain lion, I only have made one backup with time machine so far.
A few days ago I bought an iPad for the first time. Thats why I was reading the instruction for icloud and tried a few things. And there I made a mistake and all calender entries were deleted.
Thought: no big problem, as I have a backup. BUT I cant find the calendar files in the backup. I know, that the library is only shown in "Go to + alt-key", but I dont find it in the backup. (I tried also an terminal command written in a community thread, but nothing happend)
Please, can anybody help me?
Thanks a lot in advance!!!!

If you synchronize any of your calendars with a server such as iCloud, disable that synchronization. Quit Calendar.
Triple-click the line below to select it: ~/Library/Calendars Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Reveal
from the contextual menu. A Finder window should open with a folder selected. Enter Time Machine and restore that folder from the snapshot you want.
Relaunch Calendar and test. Your calendars should be as they were when the snapshot was taken. If you don't sync with a server, stop here. If you do sync some of the calendars with a server, select each one in turn and then select
File ▹ Export ▹ Export…
from the menu bar. You'll get ICS files with the filename extension ".ics". Re-enable sync. Usually, all the calendars you just restored will be deleted. That's not a problem. Create a new calendar on the server for each one you exported and want to sync:
File ▹ New Calendar
Then import the calendar from the corresponding ICS file:
File ▹ Import ▹ Import…
Follow the prompts to import the new events to the calendar you just created. For calendars that you don't want to sync, just import them again. They'll appear in the calendar list under On My Mac.

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It's the only way I know of synchronizing two computers.
I've been doing this for several years now with no problems.
It probably only works because the OS is the same and the hardware on my late 2009 iMac and late 2006 MBP are sufficiently similar. Both use Core 2 Duo cpus.
But if I upgrade to Mountain Lion (or, upgrade my MBP to an i5 or i7 cpu) I will lose the ability to do this. So on travel, I would have no easy way of synchronizing apps and files.
Of course one easy solution is just "don't upgrade." It's not like anything is particularly broken now. But it's always fun to have the latest OS.
I'm just not sure of the best strategy for having everything I need for travel if I want to use the MBP. I guess I could always switch from this quick synchronization process to a tedious "all afternoon and evening" process of moving files and folders over.
The kinds of files I'm talking about are source files I'm working on, VMs - all the typical stuff people have. Photos. Whatever.
I know how to do it manually. It's just a time-consuming nuisance is all.
One thing I'm doing is moving away from "On My Mac" folders in Mail and doing everything in IMAP. That should help. I also have LogMeIn installed. So I could always get something if I forgot it. And I have more stuff in DropBox and Evernote. That also helps.
Thanks,
doug

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