OSX Ventura ejects external hard drive mid backup

This is def a software issue. Running OSX 13.6.7 Ventura on my home Macbook pro M1 Max as well as on another iMac in office. Since updates my back hard drives, be it a 5TB lacie USBC, or my OWC Mercury elite or OWC Gemini Thunderbolt 3, get ejected mid back up over night. It appears that after some time the computer goes to sleep and power is cut causing the drive to improperly eject which will lead them eventually to damage of data corruption. Very frustrating. This never happened to me in the past 20 years as a mac user backing to external drives. I'm reading others have had had that problem, can some one please help with a remedy other than buy a new computer and use cloud