What are the best practices for using Lightroom at two locations

Here is the problem:
Photographer works weekends and vacations at another location with a second (non-portable) computer. Photographer wishes to keep two separate but identical copies of the entire photo library and LR catalog for safety. At the end of a period of work at location 1, photographer wants to take all the changed files (some new, some just modified) and update the LR catalog and the photo library at location 2. This could be done via internet but possibly it is more practical to transport the changes on a "go-between" drive.
Anybody have an opinion on the best ways to do this? Is there a way to just export (as catalog) the changed files and folders and then import at the other location? Manually copying the folders of photos that we think have been changed runs the risk of missing some. Simply copying everything means carrying close to 2TB and this will also take a lot of time before each trip. Not so practical every weekend.
Advice and ideas appreciated.

I had just started exploring smart collections (never looked at this before today) as a way of trying to collect changed/new files and metadata when I walked back into my office from my wife's (she's the photographer- i'm just tech support) and saw your reply. I think this is the direction we are leaning to because it should cut down on the hardware needs. The other reply that suggested using a third drive would add another layer of protection in that one would always have a recent complete backup on hand in case of sudden hardware failure, but we should be able to keep the risk way down by using a second Drobo 2 at the second location. Drobo has been reliable and the slowness can be overcome by saving working Photoshop files to the internal drive and only saving the final finished files back to the library on Drobo.
I am concerned about a possible performance drop if we run both the LT catalog and the file library on Drobos...currently run the catalog on the internal drive based on advice I read some time ago.
So I assume that it is possible to import the "go-between" catalog into LR on an internal drive while copying the "negative" files to the Drobo at each location. Hopefully this process is not painfully slow...but I suppose it depends on the number of files that are being exported and imported each time.
A third method that I have been investigating and would love any comments on from someone who has tried it is syncing the two Drobos via internet possibly using Synchronize Pro-X (first sync done locally!)...this might have the benefit of daily offsite backup in between visits. One thing that scares me is the possibility that somehow something screws up digitally and data is destroyed on both drives at the same time before one has a chance to discover a problem. Also how would one verify that the second location Drobo has been properly synced before arriving to discover some problem prevented a successful sync?
Thank you both for replying and helping me think through this problem.
Mark

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