Electrum Wallet Backup and Restore Process

I think I misunderstood something. Because this process is not going as I expected. I had Electrum on the laptop I was trying to reset, but I wanted to make sure everything was back up and running on my other laptop before doing so. Now, using Electrum, on your computer, go to File > Save Backup. I tried to reset it and then installed Electrum on a new computer and when it first started it asked me to create a new wallet or import an existing wallet and it provided me with a backup file so I could use it over the network. Instead of installing a local copy, it seems to reference a backup file on the NAS every time, and it seems to ask for a password to access it every time it starts. I don’t think that’s how it works. , what am I doing wrong here?