HT201272 i backed up my phone and lost my contacts and pictures. can i recover them?

I backed up my phone and i lost my contacts and pictures. can they be recovered?

You should be syncing your contacts to your computer regularly.  They should be in Outlook or whatever program you chose to sync your contacts.
You should be importing all pics taken with iphone to your computer regularly as you would with any digital camera.
If you failed to do this, then it is all likely gone.
You can try restoring from backup.

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