Windows
The original location of the Backups is in a folder called MobileSync
This folder is located in: C:\Users\*USERNAME*\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup
And to do move this folder's location, you will have to:
- Copy the folder to the new location (for example at the root of an external hard disk drive (HDD)
- Go to the orinal folder location C:\Users\*USERNAME*\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\
- Delete the folder "Backup" within or rename it "BackupOld" to keep it
- Press Shift+Right Click to open a Command window from that location
- Type the following command
mklink /J “%APPDATA%\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup” “<Your External HDD>:\iTunes Backup”
- Close Command prompt
- Launch a backup, see if it has been properly located and iTunes sees is as the latest
Voilà, saving precious disk space on Windows is easy!