I have been neglecting my home lab the last few months! So much so it was running a rather dated version of Kubernetes - 1.27.7
I wrote a post here on the trials and tribulations of the upgrade path to 1.30.6 which is the stable version and latest and greatest version that Veeam Kasten supports
https://vzilla.co.uk/vzilla-blog/upgrading-my-talos-kubernetes-cluster