Moving iPhoto 6 ALBUMS to ext. HD

Using iPhoto 6 on Power Mac G4 w/ OS 10.3.9. I have my photos arranged in ALBUMS. How can I back up these ALBUMS onto my external HD? I would like to back up my organization efforts as ALBUMS. Preserving the organization is critical.
G4 Quicksilver   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

What is your recommendation for technic of backing up the entire HD? (Although I have been using Mac since Apple II, I am still an amateur in the computer field.)
May I also ask, why aren't you just backing up your
entire hard-drive?
If you back up your entire hard-drive you will
preserve, not only your iPhoto library, but also any
other important documents. Should you, at some later
stage, wish to recover just your iPhoto library, you
can copy the iPhoto folder from your backup drive
into your pictures folder.
Another alternative is to burn your iPhoto library to
a DVD using the options contained within iPhoto. This
even allows you to be selective about the albums you
archive through this method. (Note, however, that
this is not the most efficient way to do things
because iPhoto libraries can be rather large given
that they keep originals and modified photos - my
current library won't fit onto a single DVD even
though its notional size is 3.4GB because of this.)

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