To summarise the above:
- Very important, go to System Preferences -> Security. Click on the Privacy tab and choose Full Disk Access. Click 🔒 at the lower left hand corner to unlock. Then √ the Terminal.app.
- In Finder, choose from the menu Go -> Go to folder, then paste the following line:
~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync
- You should then see a folder called Backup. Copy this folder to the external hard disk.
- Optional: Create a folder called Backup somewhere else on your external harddisk.
- Open Terminal app then type:
sudo -s
When asked, type your Mac login password.