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Quick opinion on PC backups:
I keep my disk image backups in 2 places. One is in a special partition on my PC hard drive(s), and a copy is on an external drive.
The reason for this strategy is that there are 2 major reasons why you need to use a backup image.
The first is when your PC is infected by a virus, malware, or user error. In these cases the PC runs fine, just your files are trashed. Restoring a backup directly from the PC in these cases just goes faster.
The second is a hard drive failure or ransomware attack. In these cases you can't access any files on the PC and you can't run backup software normally. In these cases you must have a backup image on an external drive, a way to load the backup software from a boot drive device, and the knowledge of how to do this.
I would guess that kittenwoman has a program on her laptop that is doing backups automatically (and seemingly without your knowledge). This can be better than nothing since so many folks can never find the time to do this chore. But it would be a fine strategy to just copy the most recent backup file to an external drive from time to time and delete all older backup files on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis - whatever works for you. The more frequent the better of course.