Using iCloud to backup contacts on my macbook pro

I would like to back up the address book on my Macbook pro, which contains street addresses, phone numbers, etc. When I go to my iCloud account and check the contacts, however, the only contacts I find there are a random assortment of facebook addresses and email addresses that my iPad seems to have assembled automatically. The iCloud section in my macbook systems preferences has my contacts checked as something I want to back up, but the icloud storage is empty, and I don't see a command that would add the contacts list into the 4.9 GB of empty storage. I'm very confused, and would appreciate some insight. Thanks much.

I found my reply elsewhere - you have to uncheck "contacts" and then recheck it. Kinda idiotic, but there you have it!

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