Acronis is intended to Image your drive so you can recover from a total loss. To do that it's essential there is more than one drive as it's pointless to store images on the same drive you are concerned might fail.
I've used it for decades, and it has saved me more than once [from my own stupidity even].
Without user input I do a full image of the OS drive on one day then the next 5 days are incremental backups [just things that change] then back to another full.
A full image is around 65gig [the OS drive is 500gig M.2] and the incrementals are around 2gig.
Every couple of weeks I cull the older ones myself, but not before there has been a secondary backup of the images to a third drive.
There are simpler proggies for just backing up files...eg your pics folder or docs etc, and they can work independently as yet another way of protecting yourself against loss. Look online for 'Syncback'. Currently I have 30 different profiles backing things up, even between networked computers. 