Where is library on my back up HD??

My hd started slowing down and misbehaving, so I thought that I was being proactive to drag all of my files over to the external hd. Thought I was copying everything on from my macbook to this ext. hd. Tood the macbook to the genius bar at the apple store and sure enough - the hd was dying. Apple genius asked if I'd backed everything up because the remedy is a new hd. Thought I was in good shape, so I said yes. Brought the system home and looked on the hd for the year of family photos I'd backed up and they are nowhere to be found. 2 things: 1. I'm affraid I didn't correctly back up the library and wonder if there's any way to find these photos. 2. what's the right way to back up for future. Right now, I just want to find the thousands of priceless photos of my kids....
Thanks

Unless you can tell us exactly what you dragged whre, we have no idea where to look, I'm afraid.
Most Simple Back Up:
Drag the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to another Disk. This will make a copy on that disk.
Slightly more complex: Use an app that will do incremental back ups. This is a very good way to work. The first time you run the back up the app will make a complete copy of the Library. Thereafter it will update the back up with the changes you have made. That makes subsequent back ups much faster. Many of these apps also have scheduling capabilities: So set it up and it will do the back up automatically.
Example of such apps: Chronosync - but there are many others. Search on MacUpdate or the App Store

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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4946
The folder where your backup data are stored varies depending on the computer's operating system. Make sure the backup folder is included in your periodic data-backup routine.
iTunes places the backup files in the following places:
Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/
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