What is your backup and/or archive workflow?

I am a wedding photographer who has been using Ap for a few months now, and am trying to come up with a good backup system and a method to archive projects to save space on my MacBook Pro.
Here is my simple workflow. I'd appreciate any recommendations for improving it.
1. After a shoot I import all images directly into Aperture (managed). A typical wedding will yield 10-20 gigs of raw files (depends on number of shooters and how long).
2. After importing, I update my Ap Vault on a 500gb external FW800 drive.
3. As I work on the image the next few weeks I update my vault every day.
4. When I'm completely done with the project I export the whole project to an "archives" folder on my external drive, and then delete it from my aperture library.
5. I then update my vault again.
6. Therefore, my vault only contains a backup of projects I'm currently working on (and are in my main aperture library), and I have a file with a growing number of individual projects that have been archived. If I want to access pictures from another project I have to re-import that project into my main library, and then delete it when I'm done.
QUESTIONS:
- Would it be easier for me to put all those archived projects into a second library for fast retrieval? How would you do that (I've noticed you can directly drag-n-drop them into the Apperture package...)?
- Would your recommend also backing up to an optical media, even though the projects are so large (20gb)?
- How can I use multiple vaults and/or libraries to make my life easier?
Thanks in advance for your help!

After all your advice, I think I definitely will start referencing to my images on an external drive. I'll keep current projects on my local HDD, but after I'm done with one I'll move the referenced images to an external drive for archival purposes. I'll also use a combination of external drives and DVDs to backup (I'll never use solely optical media as I've had to learn the hard way about the long-term integrity of optical discs....)
When all is said an done, I imagine my workflow will work something like this:
1. Shoot a wedding, importing all images into Aperture and referencing to all masters in a local folder.
2. After the wedding, immediately backup the project (including referenced files) to a portable firewire drive.
3. When I'm done working with the images, move the referenced files to an external "archive" drive.
4. Export the project (including referenced files) to a double layer DVD and stick it in the clients folder with other paperwork, etc.
5. Update my Aperture Vault (including referenced images) to a separate "backup" drive.
This way I will have all my older images on an "archive" drive and linked to AP for easy reference. I'll also have DVD backups of each project, plus a huge backup drive with my AP vault with ALL projects and images. When this drive fills up, I'll buy a new one. Hard drives are cheap, and getting cheaper. Besides, that's just the cost of doing business.
Hopefully future version of AP will have integrated DVD burning, and the ability to span a project across multiple discs.

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