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Kasten not reading labels from applications/resources

  • April 30, 2025
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Hi,

 

I’m trying to create a kasten policy for protect some applications running inside kubernetes, these are virtual machines being ran using kubevirt.

I want to apply policies, ideally, by using labels, which are applied to the virtual machines.

I’ve created a label on a virtual machine, ‘backupFreq: high’ metadata->labels->myLabelHere.

When i go to create a policy in kasten, when selecting labels, my custom label doesn’t appear in the list, is there a way to allow kasten to read the labels applied to the resource type?

Chris.Childerhose

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Chris.Childerhose
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  • Chris.Childerhose
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  • April 30, 2025

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

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Hagag
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  • Hagag
  • Experienced User
  • May 20, 2025

Hi ​@mgreen1215 Veeam Kasten can discover the Virtual Machines running on the cluster and treat them as workloads, they can be easily backed up like any other application. To protect a Virtual Machine present in a namespace, a policy should be created and run for that namespace.
so you need to label the namespace instead, in the policy creation you need to select application either by name or label.

 


otherwise you can choose the app by name and use filter to backup the VMs with the labels

 


Thanks,
Ahmed Hagag​​​​​​​

Chris.Childerhose
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