Can I do a back up on a machine other than my home pc?

Hey all.
I have a faulty iphone and have an appointment to take it into the apple store this evening, but I forgot to do my backup last night.
Is it possible to do my backup on a machine other than my home pc?
I can do one on my mac here at work, but not really sure if its possible to do a back if its not on the machine with all my apps and music.
Reason being is that if they replace my phone in the store tonight, I would like to be able to reinstall the backup to put my new phone back to the same content thats on my current/old phone (ie. contact numbers, music and app settings and all that stuff)
Cheers

Is it possible to do my backup on a machine other than my home pc?
Yes. But make sure you disable auto sync when an ipod/iphone is connected under preferences in itunes(under the edit menu in windows) BEFORE you do so. Then simply connect your phone, right click in the device pane & select backup. When finished, eject your phone, DO NOT SYNC!
Itunes places the backups here:
* Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/
* Windows XP: \Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\
* Windows Vista and Windows 7: \Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\
You'll want to copy that folder to its proper location on the computer you normally sync with because after you restore from backup, you MUST sync to restore your itunes content.

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