How do I back up my iPhone through iTunes to an external HDD; my iTunes library is already on the external HDD

Hello, this is my first time posting a question to the apple support community.
I have a bit of a (possibly unique) problem. Due to space limitations on my internal SSD, I have moved my iTunes library to an external HDD. However iTunes still backs up my iOS devices locally (~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup). This is causing a problem as it is making my SSD very full, the only way to remedy this is to remove old backups manually. Is there anyway to backup these iOS devices to the external HDD where my iTunes library is?
Thanks very much!

I am a bit confused now. I did the download and extraction of the junction utility. Now I want to backup my 32 gb iPhone 5 to the external, not the internal hard drive of my computer. I didn't quite understand the example of the path they wanted me to use. Should I physically just cut and paste the folder of my backup from Settings and Documents, etc., or how do you get the junction utility to do that? I'm not following and I'm usually excellent with computers.
I'm on a PC, running XP. Thanks.
Lori

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