My boyfriend's laptop died yesterday and I want to sync his phone with my mac (and back-up all of his data) but I don't want to lose all of his apps, photo's, etc whilst doing so. Is this possible?

My boyfriend's laptop died yesterday and I was hoping to be able to back up all of his data (photos, contacts, so forth) from his iPhone 4 onto my mac, but I don't know how to do it without completely erasing all of his data? Is it possible? If so, how can I do it?
Any help is appreciated!!
Thanks

Just an FYI, your purchases from iTunes are associated to your Apple ID. So Apps, Music, Videos, etc, that were purchased on the App Store/iTunes are freely available to him when using his Apple ID even after restoring (ie: by going to the Purchased tab in iTunes, etc). You can sync his contacts and photos to iCloud (or other free services).

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