My wife deleted contacts, how do i fix this?

I have upgraded mine and my wifes Iphone 4 to IOS5 and configured backup to icloud which appears to backup regularily, both sets of contacts merged and my wife decided to delete a bunch which of course affected my phone, how do i get them back?

Mail itself is not backed up or synced locally or to a cloud. (Mail settings are backed up in the iPhone backukp.) If you use an IMAP or Exchange account, all emails are kept on the server.
Contacts, Calendars, Notes, should be synced with either a cloud service (i.e. iCloud, Gmail) or an app on your computer (i.e. Outlook).  Some contact info is saved in the phone backup, but this is incomplete and shouldn't ge relied on - always sync the contacts with an outside app.
As far as syncing/backing up to a cloud vs local hard disk, I'm not getting into that argument.  From all the posts in this forum from those who lost data from trashed HD's and computers, the cloud(s) got to be at least as reliable, probably a  lot more for most users who don't frequently backup their own local hard discs!!

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