How to relocate ios backup in Itunes?

How can I relocate the Itunes IOS backup in Mac? I dont have enough space on my main drive and I want it to save on my external drive. You cant just edit this yourself in Itunes (even after years). I think Apple did this on purpose so people will buy more Icloud space. Not very costumer friendly if you ask me. Also, I never see a video about it....how strange, because allot of people think this is handy. Because on a SSD on your mac it is not easy to backup 20gb for just your IOS divice and I use Ipad and Iphone.

Tnx, but I already saw that one ( it was the first search that I tried on). I google it after all. I'am actually looking for a video that shows me to doe this backup trick on the mac, because it is not working for me. I think I am missing something or I am doing something the wrong way. But with a video I can just do axaclty the same. Much easier. So I cant understund why I can not find a video for it.....but thanks for the link anyway .

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