Does turning off backup erase existing backups?

I was surprised to find all my iphone and ipad backups on iCloud had disappeared! It seems as if disabling (switching off) auto backups in the device settings ERASES all existing backups WITHOUT warning! Since the autoback runs whenever the device is 1) connected to power and 2) connected to WiFi, this is very disturbing. There are times when I want to recharge my batteries and connect to mail (for example), but do not want to use up WIFI bandwidth (possibly at great expense) doing a backup. Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a work around? ICloud chat help did not seem to think it was a problem, but I now have lost all my backups! What is particularly disturbing is that there was NO WARNING that this would happen.

I've not seen anything official but it is true in my limited experience that turning the iPod touch off does seem to clear that crash info. In my first two crashes I was offered to send info to Apple the iPod touch was connected to my iMac. In my latest two crahes I've turned the iPod off before connecting to iTunes and was not offered the chance to send info to Apple this time. Will continue to monitor. 
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