I'd like to back up iPhone4 to external HD before upgrade (Local drive to full). How do I change the backup location?

Upgrading to iOS5. I'd like to back up my iPhone4 to an external HD before upgrading, but the utility uses the local HD as default. Not enough room locally for my back-up. How can I change the destination drive for back-up?

iPhone Backup Location for Windows 7, XP, and Vista
Windows XP stores all of your iPhone backup files in this location:
C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup
Windows Vista and Windows 7 backs up the iPhone files to here:
C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup
Obviously if your main drive is not C: then you’ll have to change that, same goes for ‘user’
From: http://osxdaily.com/2009/09/11/iphone-backup-location/

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