How do I back up my iPhone to computer without wiping the phone?

The hard drive of my MacBook Pro was wiped recently.
I have since added some music to iTunes (and the contacts backed up to iCloud are in Address Book).
How do I back up my iPhone (mainly music, apps and photos) to computer without wiping the phone and losing all of this data?

Follow the directions here:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3141

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