Make Lightroom more backup-friendly

1) I like to store the LR catalogs under my "My documents" folder since I take a backup of everything within this folder. Now, LR also stores the preview data in this folder, so I'd like to be able to chose where to store this type of temp/scratch files, so they will no be included in my daily backup. I prefer to have only the database present under "My documents" since this is the only file that should be backed up. I'm not talking about LR's own backup now, but my standard windows backup.
2) I like to store my metadata in the picture files instead of database only. The problem with LR as it is now (besides that "automatically write to XMP" is slow) is that the keyword hierarchy is stored within each file instead of in the database only. In my opinion, the hierarchy is global and should be stored in the application and not for each single file. If I decide to change the hierarchy, then all my files affected must be backed up again. An example: let's say I have 10.000 pictures of person X and 5000 of person Y and no hierarchy. As soon as all pictures are tagged 15.000 files must be backed up. Fine. Now, I find that I'd like to create a parent keyword named "persons" and move X and Y below this keyword. Now, 15.000 files must be backed up. Not fine. Later I find that X is family and Y is a friend and I decide to add "family" and "friends" below "persons". Now, 15.000 files must be backed up again. Still not fine.
I can see some cases where it is interesting to store the hierarchy for each file, but that is when the leaf keyword is not unique - lets say you have "toys" and under that "trains" in one branch and "transportation" and "trains" in another branch. In this case, just "train" would not be sufficient, since you don't know if it is a real train or a toy. But I think that this is not common practice, and I'd like to be able to chose for myself where I want to have the hierarchy stored - database or XMP.
3) I have also thought about another way of donig a kind of backup, which could also reduce the need of automatically write XMP to files, and that is an auto-export feature. With LR there are many changes done to pictures that is only visible within LR. This means that the whole picutre catalog is a little fragile, since if the LR database is corrupt then the changes are lost, and it also means that I can not for example show my pictures on my TV using my PS3. So, I'd like to have a feature to be able to export all pictures that have changed since my last export. By doing this, I will have a backup catalog of all my images, and this is images that can be viewed outside LR. It will also have all metadata in place, regardless of the "automatically write changes to XMP" setting.
Regards
H

No, which should be evident from the many other posts on the same subject. I'll leave the specifics of your request for others to comment on.

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