Limitations for Archive Tier

The archive tier has the following limitations:

If you transfer data to the archive tier from an object storage repository, the archive tier configuration depends on the object storage provider. For more information, see the Direct Data Transfer to Archive Tier section.
Veeam Backup & Replication does not support direct data transfer from performance extents that consist of Google Cloud Object Storage to archive extents.

Migrating data to another archive tier is not supported.
Imported backups cannot be offloaded to archive tier.
Incremental backup files cannot be stored in the archive tier.
Microsoft Azure Archive Storage with the archive access tier does not support Azure accounts with the following redundancy options: zone-redundant storage (ZRS), geo-redundant storage (GZRS) and read-access geo-zone-redundant storage (RA-GZRS). For more information, see Microsoft Docs.