Storage and back up advice please

I have an early 20011 MBP, ML 10.8 latest, Aperture recently purchased, Adobe CS5 which I have always used to edit and iPhotos. I shot RAW and keep .jpeg and.tiff for all photos. I have bout 30,000 images currently in my iPhotos library. I think I have merged Aperture with iPhtos library but it is still called iPhotos.
When I put the compact flash in the card reader they are put automatically into the iPhotos library. The ones I will use professionally I keep in folders once I have edited in CS5.
What I want is to keep ALL images on two external HDDs (double back up) as well as those I will work on on my MBP.
My question is what is the best and most secure way wo get all photos from card to two HDDs. If I back the whole iPhotos library it takes all night! Secondly how should I down load from the card, is there a better set of settings than I am using if they are default to the iPhoto library. These photos are very important, I am content with CS5 to work on them but it is the most secure and reliable storage I need with the best way to back up. Additionally, of course, I use Time Machine.
Many thanks
Jules

Jules-
It is easy once we avoid two bad practices: managed originals and importing directly into Aperture.
I recommend
• First copy card images to a folder on a hard drive.
• Next eject the card, but do not reformat it yet. This is an important step because while the card is in play errors can cause loss of the originals.
• Now separate the images in the folder into sub-folders, each of which will be a Project. Often all the images are just one Project anyway.
• Next back up the folders of images that will be projects. After two copies exist on different drives (neither of which is the Library drive) the previously ejected card may be reformatted (in-camera, not by computer).
• Only after the above are complete then import each folder as a new Project into Aperture by reference (set the import window to Store Files: in their current location) to one set of the backed up original images that are living in a folder on an external drive.
• Remember to also back up off site to protect against fire and theft.
One should never trust not-yet-backed-up original images to humans' error-prone usage of Aperture or any other images management application (unless of course one has a dual-card camera; or if images are low value and/or easily reproducible).
Good luck!
-Allen

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Network Service: iPhone USB, Ethernet, en2
Serial ATA Device: TOSHIBA MK5065GSXF, 465.76 GB
Serial ATA Device: MATSHITADVD-R UJ-898
USB Device: FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in), 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8509, 0xfa200000 / 3
USB Device: Hub, 0x0424 (SMSC), 0x2513, 0xfa100000 / 2
USB Device: HL-2240 series, 0x04f9 (Brother International Corporation), 0x0045, 0xfa130000 / 6
USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x0245, 0xfa120000 / 5
USB Device: BRCM2070 Hub, 0x0a5c (Broadcom Corp.), 0x4500, 0xfa110000 / 4
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x821a, 0xfa113000 / 7
USB Device: Hub, 0x0424 (SMSC), 0x2513, 0xfd100000 / 2
USB Device: iPhone, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x1297, 0xfd120000 / 4
USB Device: IR Receiver, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8242, 0xfd110000 / 3
Sorry if this is not what your looking for.... I made a appt with the Apple Genius Bar also so maybe they can look at it also for me. Thanks for all your help and I hope its something easy, I want to like Apple products lol.

ITunes. Entire music list has the exclamation marks and I can't open music because it cannot be located. I'm 67yr old and need advice please.

I'm 67 yrs old and asking for advice please.
I'm unable now to play the music in my iTunes playlists. 90% of the tunes have exclamation marks now and I can't 'locate' the music. How can I locate the music or remove the exclamation marks on my iTunes music list?

Typical reasons for missing files are, you've deleted the files, they are on a disconnected external drive, or the drive has a changed drive letter, you've moved the folder where the files live in some other fashion, a third party app has rearranged the files, or iTunes has got confused about the layout they are supposed to be in.
Generally you need to work out what has happened, reverse the action and everything will be alright again. If it is something you can't/don't want to undo, e.g. a drive letter change, then as long as you can track down the current location of the folder containing the media then my script FindTracks should be able to reconnect it to iTunes.
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