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I have a separate, external hard drive, where I keep my entire catalog. I want to back up my photos to another external hard drive, where I also keep my other data.

If I request that Seagate backup my data, for example, weekly, and ask Lightroom to backup my photos monthly--or daily for that matter--what happens to my photos when they are backed up at a different time as the Seagate software? Does LR send them to my external backup drive--regardless of how frequently I ask Seagate to do its backup?

I hope I have posed this issue clearly. Thank you!
 
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"and ask Lightroom to backup my photos monthly "
First- Lightroom does NOT backup your photos at all, in no way! It does not "send" them anywhere.
The Lightroom backup is the Catalog file only. (xxxxxx.LRCAT)
You must have a system in place to backup your photos, independently of Lightroom, and that might be the Seagate software.
So re-think your backup strategies.
If the Catalog file and the original photos are all on the one external drive, then a Seagate backup that copies the entire drive will include the photos and the catalog.
 
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+1 to the above. LR does not back up photos/RAW files. It only backs up the catalog (which does not contain the photos).
 
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On my Mac I have Time Machine backup up my entire file system 24/7 to a dedicated 8TB drive. That backup covers my boot disk where my Lr catalog resides. It also covers my external data RAID set that contains all my data files and documents including my photos and the backup of the Lr catalog. The next step would be to do complete backups to an offsite location in the cloud or swap backup drives to an offsite location such as a bank safety deposit box.
 
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