by Mary Cooch.
If it is a course you want to restore from 1.9 to 3.0 and it is not bigger than your allowed upload limit, then you should be able to follow the normal procedure for restoring courses from within Moodle - take a look at the documentation Course restore
As for where backups you have made can be found, if you back up a course in a Moodle 3.0 site by clicking the link Backup in the Course administration block, you can find the course again by clicking the Restore link and scrolling down to the course backup area and user private backup area.