choose append to existing backup instead of overwrite

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Hello, I have a database and I made it's first backup 2 days ago. Then yesterday I spent an entire adding new records. This morning I ran a backup, (but I selected append to existing backup set) as pictured below.

I just ran a restore and I found that it wiped out all my data from yesterday and it restored it from the backup of 2 days ago. Not the version from this mornings backup.

I zipped this backup file to be safe.

I changed some data in the DB, Then I ran the back up again, but this time I selected "overwrite all existing backup sets"

Now when I restore the db it's seems to restore the data from the backup correctly. I think I learned a lesson here, correctly if I'm wrong

My questions is, Did I lose an entire day of work?

I still have this morning's backup .bak file safe in a zip. Is there anyway I can restore is with the right data?

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