Making repeated iPhoto backups without losing original photos

I backed up my iPhoto library to an external hard drive and then deleted the original photos to free up space on my computer's hard disk. As I add new photos to my computer, how can I update my backup on the external hard drive, without deleting the original photos?
iMac   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

Hi, Moring-Anderson. If the only extant copies of your original photographs are the ones on your "backup" drive, they aren't backed up at all. If anything goes wrong with that drive, they could be gone for good. So you should be saving the original images on your main drive as well as on the backup drive, or else creating a second duplicate of each original image on CDs, DVDs or a third hard drive. Then you'll be able to say your pictures are backed up.

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