Google music only lets you download compressed versions later, so while a useful service, it's not a backup. Take a look at iBroadcast which does all the same stuff properly (but doesn't have a shop).
Simply put: don't choose a music service as a backup. Choose a storage service. Wherever you store your files, they should just store them like any other file. No matter what its content. A backup solution should simply guarantee that the bytes you send are the bytes you get back at any point in time.
If they then can play it back, downsample it etc., then that's a welcome addition. iBroadcast claims to be able to access your Dropbox. Then you could consider Dropbox your backup, while using iBroadcast for the fun part of playing back the media. But don't use iBroadcast (or Google music, or ...) as a storage.
And don't be cheap. You don't want to re-rip thousands of dollars worth of CDs just because you were too cheap to spend a hand full of dollars a month for the backup solution.
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