How to back up photos not in photo library to iCloud

ejg999 wrote:

Here is my situation: I have photos and video taken on my iPhone in the Photos library that is backed up on iCloud. However, I have a substantial number of photos and videos that have been taken on various other cameras and are stored in a separate directory on my MBP. These photos are brought into Lightroom. Once they are documented and organized in Lightroom they are moved off my MBP to a portable drive that is backed up.

The issue that I have now is how to back up the photos on my MBP that have not been moved to the portable drive (& backed up) or not in the photo library.

So my question is what are my options to back up these photos there are still on the MBP but not in the photos library and mot picked up by iCloud? Thanks

If you value your user data

3-2-1 Backup Strategy: three copies of your data, two different methods, and one offsite.

More than one device, more than one backup methodology.

—external drive

— How to create a boot clone How to create a boot clone - Apple Community

—Back up your Mac Back up your Mac with Time Machine - Apple Support

—paid cloud based back ups are an option