Loosing Location Metadata

A few months ago I studiously updated all my location metadata for a variety of JPEG, TIFF and RAW files. I just realised that lots of this has disappeared so I have had to do it all again. I just wan tto check I am doing it correctly.
1) Enter data in location fields in metadata panel in Library module
2) Select the whole library, Ctrl A, Ctrl S and save metadata for every file in my library.
I opened one of my TIFF files in Photoshop Elements editor and went to file info and can clearly see the location info. I also delted one of my RAW files form the catalog, resynced and read metadata from file and agian seems fine.
I can't think of anyway to backup so I can restore the location info if it goes missing again? Am I correct thinknig that metadata is saved into JPEG & TIFF files but into a n XMP sidecar for RAW?

>I can't think of anyway to backup so I can restore the location info if it goes missing again?
Saving it to file is the only way to be sure.
>Am I correct thinking that metadata is saved into JPEG & TIFF files but into an XMP sidecar for RAW?
Yes

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