Is there a quicker way to do a back-up of a full Lightroom catalogue & DNGs?

Hoping someone can help - sorry if I'm being thick, I'm not very techno-minded!
I am working with Lightroom 3 on a Mac OS X 10.5.8. I archive photos from the Mac hard drive onto an external hard drive (linked to the Mac via an AirPort) every few months, moving them within Lightroom to keep them visible in my working catalogue, so I can continue to access them. The Mac is backed up using the Time machine function every hour, and my automatic Lightroom catalogue backup is saved to the Mac hard drive, thus being backed up onto Time machine automatically as well (Is this wrong?).
I want to back up my archived photos from the external hard drive onto a second external hard drive, then kept off-site, in case of failure / fire etc, backing up both the actual photos (DNGs) and the Lightroom adjustments etc. I thus need to update this back-up hard drive whenever I archive a new set of photos, the aim being to get a copy of the archive and get the back-up hard drive off the premises asap, to ensure I always have a back up of all my archived photos once they are moved off my Mac. Up till now I have been doing this by "exporting as a catalogue, with negative files", onto the second hard drive; however as my archived catalogue has now reached 14,000 photos, this latest export as a catalogue has taken 2 days.... Am I missing some easier (quicker) way to do this, please??? I don't just want a copy of the catalogue, I need the actual photos backed up as well. Hope this makes sense.

clvrmnky wrote:
BTW, at one point the advice was to not let Time Machine backup your catalogue file if Lr had it open. I'm pretty sure this is still a problem. Either always make sure Lr is not running when TM runs, or excuse the catalogue file via the TM preferences. There is a slight risk of corrupting the catalogue otherwise.
According to the Help documents, when Lr 3 is open it marks itself as private and therefore excluded from Time Machine backups. Once the application is closed down it can be backed up by Time Machine.
Re original question - use a purpose designed backup application as suggested by clvrmnky. Trying to do it any other way will get you into a world of hurt.

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