Is there a faster way to make a backup of a complete catalog of Lightroom and DNG?

Hoping someone can help - sorry if I'm thick, I'm not very focused on techno!

I work with Lightroom 3 on Mac OS X 10.5.8. Archive photos from the Mac hard drive to an external hard drive (related to the Mac via an airport) every few months, moving them in Lightroom to keep visible in the catalogue of my work, so I can continue to have access. The Mac is saved using Time machine every hour, and my automatic backup of the Lightroom Catalog is saved on the hard drive to the Mac, so being on Time machine backup automatically as well (is it wrong?).

I want to save my pictures archived since the external hard drive on a second hard drive external, then kept off-site, in case of failure / fire etc., back to the time of the actual photos (DNG) and the adjustments in Lightroom etc.. So I need to update this backup hard drive whenever I have a new series of archive photos, the goal is to get a copy of the archive and get the back-up hard drive off the premises as soon as possible, to make sure that I always have a back up of all my photos archived once they are moved out of my Mac. So far I have done this by "export as a catalogue, with the negative files", on the second hard drive. However, as my archived catalog has now reached 14 000 photos, this last export as a catalogue took 2 days... Am I missing a (faster) easier way to do this, please? I'm not just a copy of the catalog, I need real pictures so backed up. Hope it makes sense.

clvrmnky wrote:

BTW, at one point that the tips were to Time Machine backup do not leave your catalog of files if Lr had opened. I'm sure that it is still a problem.  Always ensure that LR does not run during execution of TM or excuse the file catalog via the preferences of TM.  There is a slight risk of corrupting the catalogue otherwise.

According to the help documents, when 3 Lr is open it marks itself as private and therefore excluded any Time Machine backups. Once the application is closed down it can be backed up by Time Machine.

Related to the original question - use a specially designed backup as suggested by clvrmnky application. Try to do it any other way you will get in a world of pain.

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