Where the files are stored depends on how you use Desktop. If you use it with Hyper-V they are located in a virtual hard disk, if with WSL2 they are stored in the distribution ‘docker-desktop-data’. With backup I don’t mean to copy these files but to export the images (see here) and create tar files of the volumes as described here.
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