Iphone backup to an external hard disk

I'm currently using a Mac Air with very limited internal hard disk space (60.7GB). And after all applications installed, I'm left with hardly less than 10GB, not enough space to backup my iphone and ipad.
How can I point iTunes to store my iphone and ipad backups to my external hard disk, and to restore from it?

This previous discussion may be of interest: how do i change the file location of a backup on my computer

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