Segregate 3+ star raw and xmp files for cloud backup

Hi,
I don't think there is a way to do this, but I thought I would ask.  I have  few terabytes of photo's that are cataloged in lightroom.  Only a few hundred gig are photo's that I rated 3-5 stars and are the only ones that I would want to be 100% certain I don't loose in a perfect storm data loss scenario. 
I currently use windows 7 import everything into one master folder for my catalog, then sort and rate them all. Is there any way to direct lightroom to separate all photo's with a 3-5 star rating on my actual hard drive into a separate folder or duplicate them into another folder for cloud back-up?  I've tried showing the rating column in window, but it doesn't seem to bring my lightroom star ratings into windows.
Thanks,

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.
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