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# Velero backup & restore visibility

> Track Velero in Radar: Backup and Restore phases with live progress bars, scope filters, storage locations, and alerts for failed or partial backups.

[Velero](https://velero.io/) provides backup and restore capabilities for Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent volumes.

### What Radar Shows

**Backup Detail View:**

* Phase with color-coded badge, start/completion timestamps, duration
* Progress bar during in-progress backups (items backed up percentage)
* Scope filters: included/excluded namespaces and resources, label selectors
* Storage location and volume snapshot locations
* Options: TTL, snapshot volumes, default filesystem backup
* Error/warning detection (AlertBanner for failed or partial backups with validation errors)

**Restore Detail View:**

* Phase badge, source backup reference, duration
* Progress bar during in-progress restores
* Scope filters: included/excluded namespaces and resources
* Restore options: PV restoration, existing resource policy
* Error detection (AlertBanner for failed or partial restores)

**Schedule Detail View:**

* Cron schedule (monospace), last backup timestamp
* Pause state detection (AlertBanner when paused)
* Validation failure detection (AlertBanner)
* Backup template: storage location, TTL, namespace/resource filters, snapshot settings

**BackupStorageLocation Detail View:**

* Phase (Available/Unavailable), last validation and sync times
* Provider configuration: bucket, prefix, region, access mode
* Provider-specific config key-value pairs

**VolumeSnapshotLocation Detail View:**

* Provider name and configuration parameters

**Resource Browser:** Smart columns show phase badges, storage location, namespace counts, duration, expiry (with color-coded warnings), and error/warning counts.

### Supported CRDs

| CRD                    | Group          | Topology | Detail View | AI Summary |
| ---------------------- | -------------- | -------- | ----------- | ---------- |
| Backup                 | `velero.io/v1` | -        | Yes         | -          |
| Restore                | `velero.io/v1` | -        | Yes         | -          |
| Schedule               | `velero.io/v1` | -        | Yes         | -          |
| BackupStorageLocation  | `velero.io/v1` | -        | Yes         | -          |
| VolumeSnapshotLocation | `velero.io/v1` | -        | Yes         | -          |