How do I backup my iPhoto database?

I have about 2,500 photos in iPhoto. Although I use Time Machine to backup my entire Mac to an external drive, I'd also like to backup my photos to a DVD just to have a super safe archive copy.
When I go to the Picture folder, I see the iPhoto library is about 6 GBs. It's too big to fit on a DVD without splitting it. Is there some backup utility within the Mac system software that will do this? I really don't want to have to buy some third-party software as his is the only file that I'd be backing up this way.

If you don't have an external HD to which you can backup up your library in addition to Time Machine then you'll need to select a number of Event to give you about 4 GB of photos and burn them to disk via the Share ➙ Burn menu option in iPhoto. Then select additional Events, again no more than 4 GB worth, and burn them. This is because iPhoto does not support multi disk burning.
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