Why can I not restore iphone from a specific backup?

I backed up my iphone a few hours ago (making it my most recent backup), and now I am trying to restore another iphone with that same backup file. I can see it in my preferences/devices on iTunes, but when I choose "restore from backup" I do not get that specific backup file as an option to restore with.
How do I restore my iphone to that certain backup?

Do you have a smaller capacity micro SD card to try? I seem to remember from past posts that users were having problems with cards larger than 32GB, however, Apple's page doesn't mention this.
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 Cheers, Tom

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