The phone has been updated. Now insists on 'restore'.  This will lose all the contacts.  Help!

The phone has been abroad for 4 months using a local sim card.  Now home, it has been 'updated' from itunes and now insists on 'Restore'.  This will delete all contacts.  Backup unavailable, the screen shows only the sign to plug in to itunes.  Have tried turning off and on.  Same. 

Although contacts are included with your iPhone's backup along with a significant amount of other data which is updated by iTunes as the first step during the iTunes sync process, contacts are designed to be synced with a supported address book application on your computer. Not a good idea to depend on your iPhone and your iPhone's backup or on any cell phone along for your contacts, which can be lost or stolen, or suffer hardware damage from being dropped in water or liquid, etc.
How do your know your iPhone's backup is unavailable?

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