Oh, I am see now where source of the problem. Not users files but sia DB with renter contracts...
Actually contracts are stored in the blockchain. But only outdated versions - latest actual revisions of contracts are stored only locally on renter and host disks.
Also contracts on blockchain do not include information about on which host each piece of user data was placed on.
It is possible to restore/reconstruct all this data by querying all hosts in all active contracts renter have (and all base contracts and actual hosts addresses can be restored by scanning blockchain - only wallet/seed needed). But this functionality has not implemented yet - there are only plans for future development (ETA - next year in best case).
So backup whole sia data folder (excluding blockchain) is a very good idea for now.
At least there is no longer need to backup files uploaded to SIA itself. Lol without it (prior ver. 1.3.0) SIA was almost useless for actual data storage.