Backup of a on-prem VMware Virtualized Linux 7.5 VM file system backup

Unable to transfer on-prem file system on Linux 7.5 VM to Azure File share(AFS). We have a VMware Virtualized Linux VM -7.5, which has approx 5TB of data. This is being used as a file share for multiple application / users. We intend to back this up in Azure FIle storage using File Sync, please advise.