How Can I Check Time Machine backup has worked?

Hello all
I am new to Mac and still feeling my way so please be gentle! I am not even sure if this is the right community to be in. My system runs 10.7.2 (is that lion, leaopard or penguin?)
Today I used Time Machine for the first time. Successfully formatted my external harddrive and did the first backup. Then uploaded all my photos from my camera using iphoto and did another backup.
I want to check that the back up was successfull and that my photos are on the external hard drive before I do a second backup on a different hardrive and then delete the pics from my camera. I am not sure how to check this. When I open the external harddrive I can't really understand where the iphoto files would be...
your advice and patience with a rookie would be much appreciated
Cheers
CC

Hi ChicaneChampagne
It would appear from your posts that you are failing to understand how backups and TM works...
For a better understanding see these links before going any further...
Time Machine Tutorial
How do I view or restore selected items?
Restore From Time Machine
http://support.apple.com/kb/VI29
You may also find this Link by Pondini of Interest...
http://pondini.org/TM/Clones.html

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