Can a catalog have references to two copies of an image?

Here is what I mean.
My workflow is such that when I import images from my CF card lighroom makes two copies of the images. copy 1 to local drive and copy two to NAS drive (backup). I than filter and work on the images on the local drive. On a usual basis I run a syncing program that syncs the local drive files with the NAS files (changes, deletions, addition etc.) This way I always have two updated copies (actually 3 copies since the NAS is in RAID1) of the files.
Now, if my local drive crashes (the files I do all the work on), my plan was to be able to get the backup files copied into a new local drive and continue as if nothing happened. Will that work? Will the lightroom catalog recognize the newly copied files and apply all of the correct setting (ratings, adjustments etc.)
Luckily this hasn't happend yet, but the whole point of backing up is to be ready for when it does.
Thanks for any info.
Michael

Excellent. Thanks fo the answer. I actually just tested it out earlier today with some garbage images.
deleted them from the hard disk--> opend lightrrom which obviously couldn't find them, closed lightrrom. Copied the images back to the local drive and opened lightrrom again. The images were there with all data intact.
I guess I finally found a working workflow that gets backed up as well, and with no manual copying etc.
Gotta love Lightrrom!
thx again.
Michael

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