How to sync iPhone with iTunes on another computer?

How to sync iPhone with iTunes on a second computer, without losing everything on iPhone please?
iTunes is giving me the message: "If you sync with iTunes it would delete content from iPhone and copy everything from this iTunes library"!

Yes, i do use iCloud for contacts, calendar and photos...
I will try to sync it again tonight and let you know how did it go.
Thanks again.

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