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Kasten Guest File Restore?


Hi all,

 

I’ve following my way through the kasten documentation to get to grips with Kasten, this page seems to suggest that guest file restore is, to some extent, possible Restoring Guest OS Files - Veeam Kasten Integration Guide.  I can’t figure out how this would be done through my own testing though?

 

We’re running Kubernetes with a ceph rbd storage pool for data and kasten v7.5.8.  Currently joined to Veeam Backup and replication on the latest path running in a vmware production environment.

 

Is it actually possible to do individual file restores like this, or are the docs misleading me?

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Chris.Childerhose
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@Madi.Cristil ​@safiya - please move this to the Kubernetes board for better assistance.


Tommy O'Shea
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  • April 1, 2025

What wasn't working in your testing? In the link you included in your post, it says this:

Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes does not support restore of individual guest OS files and folders to the original location (applications added to a Kasten cluster). You can only save files and folders to a new location.

It will also only allow guest file restore from Linux and Unix systems, not Windows. 


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To describe my workflow slightly better; i’m using kasten to snapshot a workflow running on kubernetes, so far i’ve tried both a native kubernetes application running in a given namespace, and a virtual machine migrated to run using kubevirt, also running in a dedicated namespace.

I snapshot either of these applications, then export the snapshot to a virtual machine running minio as a test backup location.

This is configured within kasten’s Location profile section, the export to this location completes successfully, but ends up under a ‘snapshot’ menu with only the option to restore to kubernetes.

 

In the KB article, this is under the ‘disk’ menu instead; am i missing a piece of documentation somewhere that exlpains how to create the job/policy to create a backup file?

 


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