How do I back up my iPhone to a flash drive? I know it's possible, I just don't exactly know how to do it.

My computer won't back up my iPhone. I'm guessing it's due to not having enough space. I'd like to instead, back up my iPhone to a flash drive. How do you transfer it to the flash drive? I'm aware that you can choose past back ups to transfer but my iPhone has never been backed up, so is there a way to, as my phone is syncing and attempting to back up, that I could have it automatically transfer all the information straight to the flash drive? Hope i'm not too confusing and you can understand what I'm trying to ask. THANKS.

The iPhone backups are saved on the Users/user_name/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup folder. You can create a symlink that points that folder to your external flash drive, but those backups files are pretty big so iTunes may take longer to create those files in a flash drive.
Symlinks are created using the command ln -s, and it may look something like:
ln -s /Volumes/your_flash_drive_name_here /Volumes/your_hdd_name_here/Users/your_user_name_here/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup
You can also find applications that make symlinks creaton easier.

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