How can i export my iphone 5 backup on my laptop to a portable usb drive

Hi All
Does anyone know how to export the backup of a iphone 5 on my windows machine C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\
to an external harddrive properly. The reason for my question is that my local disk on my laptop has started to fail and before it becomes unbootable i would like to move my latest successful backup to a portable drive. I did try and copy the the folder with my latest backup from  C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup to my usb but for some reason it only copies (3.76GB) 13,000 items whereas in the actual location i can see 49,000 items present (12.6GB).
Do i need a specific tool or application to extract this backup or can you not do what im asking it to do.
Thanks :-)

No. You can not restore a backup made with a newer version of iOS to a device running an older version of iOS. Since the 3G won't run anything higher than iSO 4.2.1, it's not possible to restore your backup to it.

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