I can't restore back up on my iphone becuz software is too old.

I am so afraid to start as new phone to update software on my new iphone 4, becuz it says I need to start as new phone and update software before I can back up existing info from my old iphone 4. Please help. I'm so afraid I'll loose my data if I choose new phone then update and then.....will I be able to add back up to my new phone.
thanks!

Welcome to the discussions,
did you try a manual backup by choosing this option in the File menu in iTunes or right click on it in the device list and hit "backup"?
This will perform a backup without the sync process. In order to save the backup from getting overwritten, copy a duplicate of the iphone backup folder to another place on your HD, in case you'll have to use it again. The location on your HD and how to do this, is described in this article: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
Windows Vista and Windows 7: \Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\

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