Where are the backups?

Are there backups of my iPhone and iPad stored on my hard drive somewhere? I see iTunes say "backing up" all the time and I wonder, 1) are there multiple copies, and 2) do they involve the whole content (media etc.)? I'm wondering if this takes a significant amount of space on my primary drive and whether I can move them to an attached secondary drive.

Is your backup disk a shared disk? How did you "see" the disk for your first backup- was it drectly connected to your Macbook, or accessed wirelessly over your network? In theory, if you can mount the disk on your desktop, you should be able to use it with Time Machine. In practice, however, TIme Machine appears to be more reliable if the backup disk is either connected directly to your local machine, or to your wireless router via USB.

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