How can I save multiple backups of my iPhone?

This weekend I purchased a new 13" MacBook Pro. In the process of transferring data from my old MacBook Pro to the new one I almost lost all of the data from my iPhone. In the process I realized that by default iTunes only keeps one instance of the backup data - the most recent one.
To avoid such a near miss in the future and to add some healthy redundancy into my life, I would like to be able to keep at least one additional backup copy of my iPhone data. Elsewhere it has been suggested to periodically copy the backup folder to another location. This seems terribly inefficient. Is there a more Apple-like way to create and manage multiple backups of my iPhone and iPad data?
Thanks!

That's the only suggestion I have seen (or maybe renaming the files where they are).  It is most un Apple-like for a person to want to do anything than how the programs are set up to do things! You're making life complicated.
I guess if you were absolutely deteremined to make it "easier" you could write an Applescript to automate the  copying process. 

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