Restore from Backup without saving

How do I stop iTunes from saving an additional backup when I am restoring to backup on a new iPhone. It takes up alot of space and I do not have enough, hence the process stops after some time.

Relatively, the iPhone's backup does not take up that much space. If your computer's hard drive does not have enough free storage space for the iPhone's backup, you need to free up some space in a hurry or you risk data loss with other data on your computer and computer performance problems.
iTunes creates and maintains a separate backup for each iDevice which cannot be changed or prevented. When connecting a new iPhone to iTunes the first time, there is nothing on the new iPhone to be backed up. You are prompted to transfer the backup for an existing iPhone which must be followed by a sync and a new backup for the new iPhone is created. After the new backup is created for the new iPhone, you can delete the backup for the old iPhone. If you continue to sync the old iPhone with iTunes, a new backup for the old iPhone will be created by iTunes which will be updated as the first step during the iTunes sync process.
If your computer's hard drive does not have enough storage space for this, you need to focus your efforts elsewhere such as removing as much data from the existing hard drive as possible such as removing 3rd party apps that are rarely if ever used, transferring your iTunes library to an external hard drive and the same for all photos stored on your computer's hard drive, or invest in hard drive upgrade for your computer to a much larger hard drive.
If your computer's hard drive has less than 10% free, the iPhone's backup is the least of your concerns.

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