Changing Backups location

Hi.
I'm having problems with my hdd, i know backups are stored in:
# Windows Vista and Windows 7: \Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\
I only keep the latest, but even that way, i cant change the path. This should not be a problem, but my main HDD is a Solid State drive, and it has just 120gb, and from the approx. 25 free i used to have, my iphone's backup take up about 15gb.
I just want to save the backup in my secondary hard drive, now im moving every time the backups (but this will not be possible if my hdd gets filled, and its a very tedious process)
I've read that some people moved the whole Profile directory, but this is very problematic for me, and even more without a clean installation. I hope there is any way, modifying a config file, something, to do something as basic as this...
Thanks in advance.

rsar001 wrote:
So, Can we do the following:
1. Manually copy the all the backups pieces to the new server, put them under the same directory structure (e.g. if the original server had the backups under d:\oracle\backup\<SID> , then we create a similar dir structure on the new server)
2. Set the database serves along side the folders structures on the new server.
3. Connect to the RMAN catalog from the new server.
4. Either run duplicate or restore command to duplicate or restore the database.
is the above correct?
Thanksfor duplicate you need to place backup pieces in same location, when you are restoring from backups then specifically not needed.

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