Help doing a backup

I know it is very easy to do an iphone backup on iTunes but I really need help with this scenario
My uncle has an iPhone 3GS and I am giving him my old iphone 5 as I upgraded to the 5s
I am using my own laptop so it's not his own one where he has his iTunes library
I plug the phone in and I creates a new library just for his phone on my laptop
The options it gives me when I plug the phone in are "restore from backup" and "set up as new phone" but I want to backup the 3GS?
When I click on file and then devices, the backup option is greyed out.
I have also signed into his iTunes library if this helps and also authorised the computer
How do I do a backup?
Thanks in advance

Did you copy all your purchases to your computer's iTunes via File > Transfer Purchases first ? The backup only contains the apps content and settings and not the apps themselves, so for the restore to work your apps will need to be on your computer's iTunes, other it can't restore them and therefore their content. The backup also doesn't contain music, films, tv shows etc purchased form Apple. As long as the apps are still available in the store, and you use the same iTunes account as you originally used to buy them, then you should be able to re-download apps and iBooks (and if you are in the US films and tv shows) for free : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
In term of your photos, were they taken with the iPad ? If so then restoring to your backup should copy them back. If they were originally synced from your computer then you will need to re-sync them - they also wouldn't be included in the backup.

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So let me preface this - for months I'd hoped for a way that Time Machine could backup my FileVault encrypted account without logging out. Last night Snow Leopard spontaneously started doing this. I know many may think that I'm looking a gift horse in the mouth, but read further and hopefully someone can help me make sense of this.
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Thanks for the input Pondini -
I tried deleting the file as mentioned in #A4 and it still had the problem. Last weekend i finally got a brand new hard drive and reinstalled OSX 10.6.3 from scratch, then promptly applied the 10.6.7 combo update. I purposely chose to NOT import my old user from backup and instead set up everything again manually (royal pain, but the only way i could be sure that i wouldn't bring the problem with me). Today i whipped out my TimeMachine drive and set it up for backups. I crossed my fingers and it AGAIN started backing up all 250+GB of my system from within my FileVault protected account.
My wife's MBP is still running 10.6.4 and i'm beginning to wonder if his is an issue with 10.6.7 since i'm relatively certain i didn't experience this before that upgrade.
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If i DO add my home folder to the exclude list, will it still be backed up when i log out?
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My original I Phone 5 was running IOS 6.12
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RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
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