@Christopher Schwarz (Group) ,
That's correct, It is not possible to backup AKS nodes using MABS. You can check the following document link for guidance around performing workload cluster backup or restore using Velero and Azure Blob storage on Azure Stack HCI
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure-stack/aks-hci/backup-workload-cluster
Hope this helps!
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