How can I best protect my work from failure?

Several years ago I used Adobe Photoshop Album to catalog/tag over 9000 pictures. It was an awesome way to organize and find photographs. Although I had archived and backed the photographs up on an external hard drive, it seems the catalog/tags were on the hard drive, which crashed. When I tried to restore the database, the photos were there but I lost all of the catalogs/tags that I had created. It was a pretty devastating loss and I gave up on the product. I miss being able to search and create--there are now 11,000 pictures... I store the pictures on a removable hard drive and have an identical hard drive to duplicate. This is nice because I can plug either hard drive into any computer and easily access everything.
I have worked up the nerve to try again with Photoshop Elements. I will purchase two copies for two workstations and would like the ability to plug the removable drives into either to use the search/organize capability. Is this possible? It seems it would require the database to pull data completely from the external drives. If not, I want to fix what ever I did wrong last time to cause me to lose the catalog/tags, but have no idea what caused it... I don't want a single point of failure! Please advise given my two external drives.

As Paige mentioned, the PSE Backup command is the simplest way to backup your catalog, but you must remember to invoke it often.  You could instead configure a general-purpose backup program to run every night automatically, but you must ensure it is backing up both your catalog folder and your photos.
I strongly recommend that you not rely on Photoshop.com as your primary backup -- it doesn't back up all of the information in your catalog.
See this FAQ for more details:
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshop-elements-faq.htm#_Backing_up_your

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