Dragging File on Mac into iCloud drive

Does anyone know what happens if I drag a  big file I use often on my desktop and laptop computers into icloud drive? Does this remove the file from my computer and place it in the cloud or is the copy still on my computer. My concern is twofold: if the icloud ever crashed would I lose the files and I have security concerns. Also---I'm guessing files in icloud drive do backup when time machine does its backup routine--right?

I have the newest versions on iMac and iPad, and everything is set to save to iCloud, but neither the Mac nor the iPad version save Garageband songs to iCloud. Furthermore, the way the Garageband folder shows up in iCloud, as something different from all other iCloud folders, is a little weird. It is a separate folder from all the other items (Numbers, Pages, etc. each have their own folder within one master folder, but Garageband is not in there. It is by itself, like an orphan folder. And it is empty.) Any ideas?

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