Upgrade ios5 from a "different" mac

I'm away from my home mac. Is there any way for me to upgrade to ios 5 from my mac at work? without erasing anything on the phone (3Gs)
Thanks

My question is:
Being away from the home Mac, on the secondary (different) Mac is it possible to:
- first disable syncronization in the iTunes
- back up iPhone
- download and update to iOS5 (the update deletes everything)
- restoring everything from the back up
Thanks

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