Changing harddrives

Hi there,
I've recently switch from Windows to Mac and I am also in the process of getting to know the ins-and-out of Lightroom 1.1. I really like it!!
My question is about external harddrives in combination with Lightroom. I have one external Lacie harddrive (500GB)on which all my photo's are saved and which I use for my editing and stuff. Then I have another external 500GB back up hard drive which is an exact copy of the one I use for my editing.
Right now I'm in the process of importing my images in Lightroom and I was wondering what would happen if my main hard disk would crash - hopefully not in the near future ;-)- and I would just attach my back hard disk. Will Lightroom have any problems with that? Will it find the photos or will I have to import them all over again?
Since the structure of the two disks are the same I would think that Lightroom shouldn't have a problem but you never know.
Has anybody has experience with this or a thought on this?

Ensure you save the Metadata (Cmd/Ctrl-S) regularly and make that part of your backup. Keep regular backups of the Catalog (make it a prompt when you start.)
If Lightroom can't find images on a hard disk, it will warn you and you can repoint them to a new source. Probably best to do it on an image high up in your hierarchy so it makes it easier to find all of your images.
If your drive has SMART technology, there is also a useful menu bar item to tell you the status of your drives. SMART Reporter http://www.macobserver.com/tip/2006/06/05.1.shtml
Richard Earney
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