How do I make sure all pics on iPhoto are in my back up drive?

I'm bad at computer so take this slow and thank you for your help!
I have a iMac 24" dual core thing. I have an external 1tb hard drive that's labeled "my back up photos". In reality, I "think/want" all my photos stored only on that back up and not on my computer. I have a LOT of photos and don't want to chew up my computer's memory/speed/whatever by overloading it with pics. I've got 23,000 pics and 74GB of space used for them. Not sure how big that is but I think it's sizable. Anyway...I can't remember how/where to tell the iMac whenever I plug in my photos and download them in iPhoto to have them stored on the external and pull from there when running.
I hope that makes sense. I think this is an easy question?? any help is appreciated. Thanks.

1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
Note: This is now your Library. It's not a Back Up, and you need another disk for backing up.
Regards
TD

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