And from what I understand F.A.P. just saves them in a different location that still needs backing up
It isn't important to me to back up F.A.P./Imported Items to a cloud. I back up locally. The local backup is the most important by far. I am not sure if you can back up the II and the AC database separately, but even with the seeding, I would rather be able to download the AC database in 15 minutes and get my II from my external backups or the ones I take home, etc. You should back up your server every night anyway.
Seeding is great, but you are still at the mercy of AC copying them back and shipping them to you. Even if you get through and they jump right on it, the earliest you could get it would be around 18 hours. I think having AC fully functional and even being able to use II would be a better way to go. After over 11 years, my AC backup is 300MBs. You can upload and download that in approximately 17 minutes. Even a practice with four doctors times 10 years, you should be looking at 1200MBs and 70 minutes.
Hell, you can simply copy and paste your II folder to a USB drive, any external drive or Rsync it to your house.
