IPad deleted contact book?

I was entering a bunch of contact numbers into my iPad 2's contact book (about 150 in all), and without warning, they all disappeared. I'd experienced a number of freezes and crashes throughout the process but nothing like that before. Is this a glitch, or have I done something wrong? Is there anything I can do to recover them?
I can re-enter most of them, but I'd rather not spend another couple of hours repeating the task, and there were some contacts that only existed on my iPad.
Advice/comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Same thing happened to me last night. I was told basically that if I had backed up before it happened, then it wouldnt be an issue. So why did it happen? The Apple store did not know. They ran a diagnostic and said the software and OS were fine, but they were not interested in pursuing why it did that. As long as I back up before my iPad randomly deletes, presumably to a PC which wont have these problems, then why would I worry about it?
That was the answer.

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