How to break up a single large catalog into smaller catalogs?

I use PSE6. I have about 8,000 photos in a single large 22 GB catalog file. Needless to say this is getting out of hand and slowing things down overall, especially during backups. At this point it takes me nearly half an hour to do a full catalog backup using PSE's backup function, and most of that time is consumed in backing up old unchanged stuff. To make this more efficient, I want to divide this mess up into several smaller catalogs, with maybe a thousand or so photos in each catalog file. Most of them will be considered "archive" catalogs and never changed, leaving me with a single current "working" catalog, which I hope will speed things up. My PC is not new, but it is a Pentium 2.8 with 2 GB of RAM and 500G and 160G 7200 RPM drives. I keep all backups in two places: a local drive, and a "safety" copy on an external USB drive.
I can see how to create a series of new catalogs, but what are the mechanics of transferring the appropriate groups of files from the single big catalog to the new smaller catalogs?
Thanks for the help,
Jerry

Thank you for taking the time to post your recommendations. I agree, After further consideration I have decided not to break up the catalog, mainly because of the search difficulties it would probably cause. I see I mis-spoke before... when I said 22 GB I meant the backup file is that size, not the catalog file itself. I have no idea what size the catalog file is, but it's probably pretty small since it only contains thumbnails, file info, and tagging data. I do in fact have two local drives, one of which contains PSE and the other mostly backups. My redundant "safety" backup copy resides on an external USB drive that is never connected except during a backup process. I have not been using incremental backups, because I never liked the idea of having mulitiple generations of data that depend upon all of them working correctly together to complete a complete file restoration daisy chain, but I suppose that's the only way to shorten the time spent in creating identical backups to two separate drives, so I will begin doing it. I considered RAID software, but after investigating that and hearing some of the horror stories I rejected the idea. About once every six months I also burn a full backup to DVD. All this backing up may seem fanatical to some, but it would be a heartbreaking event if my wife and I lost 12 years of family photos, and I don't intend to let that happen, not to mention losing a lot of medium format and 4x5 B&W files which I have painstakingly scanned and edited over the years.

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