Using icloud as my media backup

Any help/opinion/advice is much appreciated!
So I have amassed a large amount of media over the past 15 years: Movies, photos, Home Videos, music collection, tv shows, etc. In total I have around 1.75TB of media. I use a MacBook Pro Laptop and have Apple TV's connected to my 3 TV's in my home. I have all my media running through iTunes (so it will work with Apply TV) but all the media is saved to my external hard drive that stays plugged in to my MBP. I got to thinking how nice it would be to have all this media stored safely in a cloud somewhere that way I don't have to be so dependent on this external hard drive...it gets very annoying having to keep my external hard drive plugged into my laptop at all times.
My question to you all is: Can I backup all this media via icloud or the new icloud drive? I would love to put my media in ONE PLACE and have it accessible from any apple device and Apple TV. Also...I want to do this for all my photos but understand that may have to be done through icloud photo library???
Thanks!

I would not expect that to happen. iCloud was put in place to support data from Apple apps and music.
You are not going to get an answer here, since anyone who might know would not be allowed to comment, but i am sure lots of us users have opinions.

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Hello Everyone,
Recently I update my iPhone 5,my wife iPhone 6 ,my wife iPad to iOS 8.3 and my MacBook Air to 10.10.3.
As part of the upgrade i purchase more space on iCloud for backuping my photo library.
I'm using the same account (iTunes and iCloud) on my Mac and my iPhone but using different one on my wife iPhone and iPad .
is there any option to use my iCloud account on my wife iPhone and iPad just for backuping purpose.
I saw that i can logged out from iCloud on her devices and logging in with my iCloud account but i'm affirmed to sync all of my personal data (contacts and so on) to her devices.
please advice.
Thanks,
Marco.

This sounds like misconfiguration issues.
For Calendars, log into each of your accounts on iCloud.com. Check the Calenders app there to ensure each of your iCloud-based calendars are properly shared between your wife and you. Remember, when you invite another person to share your calendar, that other person must accept the invitation.
For Contacts, make sure you have contacts in your account (check on your phone and on iCloud.com). On your phone, go under Settings/iCloud and make sure the toggle is on for Contacts. Again on your phone, go to Settings/Mail, Contacts, Calendars. Swipe down and make sure your default calendar is your iCloud-based calendar.
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Hi Rob
It sounds like my problem is the same as yours..... Sorry, but I'm a bit of an iPad dummy so am writing for some more clarification...
My problem is..... I am away from home and only travelling with my iPad, however we have sold our house and my bigpond email address on my iPad is getting clogged with all the solicitors stuff etc, so I really need these emails for my files...
I want to be able to backup these up (so that I can retrieve them later to print out and file) and delete them from my iPad...
I've just created an iCloud email account (I think) is this what you did? So should I forward all my emails to this iCloud email account? And will I be able to retrieve them later?
I hope you login here to see my question.....
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You can only restore them from a Computer backup. This has occurred because you are sharing an iCloud account. ideally you should each have your own iCloud account, that way you can each manage your own mail, contacts, calendars, documents etc and avoid unintentional deletions and unwanted editing. If there is information you wish to share between you, this can be done with a secondary account.
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Restoring the backup will overwrite the data currently on the phone. (In fact, you have to erase the phone in order to restore an iCloud backup.) However, you can import the new photos in your camera roll to your computer using your usb cable before doing so, as explained here: iOS: Import personal photos and videos from iOS devices to your computer. They can then be synced back to your phone using iTunes after restoring the backup.
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Hi Rob
It sounds like my problem is the same as yours..... Sorry, but I'm a bit of an iPad dummy so am writing for some more clarification...
My problem is..... I am away from home and only travelling with my iPad, however we have sold our house and my bigpond email address on my iPad is getting clogged with all the solicitors stuff etc, so I really need these emails for my files...
I want to be able to backup these up (so that I can retrieve them later to print out and file) and delete them from my iPad...
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