How do I manage backups?

I want to backup my catalogues. Specifically, I want to store 2 backups for each catalgue.
I know how to back them up. I know how to make them backup to a different drive from the catalgue. But I'm getting stuck managing the backups.
Catalogue backup structure is like this
backup folder/date and time/catalogue name.lrcat
Say I have a client called "Bob and Sue". I might edit the catalogue every day of the week and take a backup each time - giving me 5 backups. I also have a client called Dick and Jane that I edit on Monday and Wednesday and another called Wendy and Steve that I edit only on Monday.
At the end of the week here is what my backup structure looks like. (I've dropped some times in to make things tidy)
backups/Monday 1100/BobandSue.lrcat
backups/Monday 1115/WendyandSteve.lrcat
backups/Monday 1200/DickandJane.lrcat
backups/Tuesday 1100/BobandSue.lrcat
backups/Monday 0900/DickandJane.lrcat
backups/Wednesday 1100/BobandSue.lrcat
backups/Thursday 1100/BobandSue.lrcat
backups/Friday 1100/BobandSue.lrcat
The ones in bold are the ones I want. How do I do that?
(Hint: it would be a LOT easier if the folder structure were backup folder/catalogue/date)

Thanks Josh.
For many reasons, I'm going to stick to one client per catalogue. Mainly for performance reasons. Plus some client work is confidential and can't be held with other clients.
I've been trialing that exact plugin and have a support call to the developer to see if it can be made to do what I want. Unfortnuately it appears from the trila mode to delete backups regardless of catalogue name. So I would be left with just
backups/Thursday 1100/BobandSue.lrcat
backups/Friday 1100/BobandSue.lrcat
from my list. Which would be very bad.

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