HVX Files and Media Backup. Raw or converted are keepers?

I am in Russia shooting a documentary and I'm starting to rack up the footage with the HVX200.
I am archiving all those crazy files that the HVX producess but I'm wondering if I really need to do that. I have to download this stuff because the camera is rolling a lot and I have to clear cards to keep shooting.
Questions is, do I keep all these crazy files, which I can't preview or work with at all on a Mac or do I dump them once I've imported the footage to FCP and made workable copies that I can actually view and rename.
FCP dumps all the clips into one huge capture bin so it gets really confusing. If I rename these and in the future have to reimport from the crazy HVX file structure, I'll lose all the unique names I created and then FCP won't know what to look for.
If I rename the clips in FCP, looking for raw clips on the HD could be a bit of a nightmare. Just wondering the best approach. Whatever happens the resulting media will be backed up twice. This creates a further problem. If I keep the crazy HVX files (on two drives) AND the converted files, I'm taking up twice as much space. I'm in Russia and don't want to run around trying to find drives.
Thanks in advance. Looking forward to some good answers.

Hi,
Thank you for the replies, sorry for the delayed repsonse, I've been in an "Edge Network" area for 2 days.  I am going to check ou the Publish services and see if this will meet my needs.
You are correct that this is simply my "hell in a handbasket" back-up solution.  I have a very robust local backup, that includes raid along with on and offsite versioned back-ups, so this is simply there just in case.  If I lost everything but these photo's I'd still be okay, it's only 20% of so of my catalog so it's more practical to back up 400 or 500 gb though uploads.  Backing up the whole catalog might be an option, but it's a lot of extra time and bandwidth.  Perhaps it will become more practical in the coming months and years.
Having said all of that, I would prefer to simply back-up the 3-5 star photo's in their original folders rather than duplicate them though an export.  I get the impression that the Publish services acts like a real-time dynamic filter that throws the 3-5 star photo's in a separate location that I will tag as a cloud back-up.  If I have to do it that way I will, but it's just more storage and complication.  Still it does provide a solution that I don't currently have.
Thanks for the suggestions!

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