Backing up/archiving projects and events in FCP X

I have been using FCP Studio since 2003 and have a great workflow and back up procedure but with FCP X I have to find new ways to do things.
Situation: My client will have me shoot many people asking the same questions. I love FCP X because metadata and keywords are much more powerful than logging was in FCP 7. So in FCP X I end up with an event and 12-14 projects. The client often will come back with changes many months later so I need to be prepared to modify an existing project or make a new one from the footage in the event that was never used in a previous projects.
Back Up: So I duplicated the event to a external drive because I need everything ready to go but need to free up space. Very easy.
Now the projects need to be duplicated to the external drive and this is where I am struggling.  I need back up each individual project because I can not select multible projects, which so different than FCP 7 where you could just send the project (which contained multilbe timelines) out as a ****.fcp file and put it with your original footage. The FCP X projects are duplicated projects only and it works just great but now only do I have to duplicate each project individually and they are not in nice folders. They are seperated folders by events and projects.
Not complaining, just reaching out to see if anyone has more knowledge than I do or has worked out a better solution.

Awesome. Thanks dredcomm. That will save tons of time.
I have already been doing that inside of FCP X but it should also be noted that FCP X does not let you duplicate a project folder. 
Now I will just use the finder to copy the appropriate folder to an external drive.

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