If you are using Microsoft Azure to host legacy applications vague, you are likely to want a backup of virtual machines.
Backup data should never be stored in the same physical location as the live data. So, we must make sure backup data is stored in another location than the Azure region that hosts our virtual machines.
As Microsoft Azure data centers do not provide backup to tape and no physical access to collect tapes, the only option to get data offsite is by using disk to disk copy.
We have three options to do that:
Store backup data in our on-premises data center
Store backup data in another Azure region
Store backup data in a non-Microsoft Azure cloud
Storing backup data in an on-premises data center will mean all the backup data is transferred over a site to site VPN. This can take quite some time for the transfer to finish. Apart from data, Microsoft will charge for data leaving Azure.
Another aspect to consider is the time it will take to...