Creating a Bareos instance

This guide covers the deployment of a self-hosted Bareos service.

To proceed, make sure you have an account in Cleura Cloud, and you are logged in to the Cleura Cloud Management Panel.

Step-by-step deployment

In the left vertical pane of the Cleura Cloud Management Panel, expand the Marketplace category and click on Discover Apps and Services. In the central pane, you will see all available applications and services. Locate the Bareos box and click the green View button.

You will see the Bareos information page, where you can learn more about its features, and obtain pricing information. Click the orange Deploy this App button to start the deployment process.

The Bareos application is hosted on a Nova VM, so now you may select a region, a name, a flavor, a public network, a keypair, and a security group for it. Regarding the security group, make sure it includes a rule allowing incoming TCP connections to port 80.

Read and agree to the Terms and Conditions. When you are ready, click the green Create button.

The deployment takes some minutes to complete. To check how it is going, expand the Marketplace category in the vertical pane on the left and click Provisioned Apps. In the central pane, watch the Bareos Heat stack row. The animated icon at the left marks the deployment progress.

When the deployment is complete, you will see a white check mark in a green circle.

Logging into the Bareos dashboard

You must know the URL of Bareos and the password automatically generated for the administrator user. For that, make sure you are in the Provisioned Apps pane. Click on the Bareos row to expand it, and select the Stack Output tab.

Get a pop-up window revealing the URL of the particular Bareos deployment. Click the icon in the Action column of the harbor_webui_url row, then click the blue Copy Output! button. Paste that into a new text editor window, but don’t save it in a new file. Instead, we recommend you create a new entry in your password manager of choice and use the URL there. Close the pop-up window by clicking on the Back button.

In the webui_credentials row, click the icon in the Action column. A pop-up window appears. Click the blue Copy Output! button to copy the content of the Output box to the clipboard. Paste that into a new text editor window. Move the user name (administrator) and the password into the password manager entry you just created. Again, the pop-up window by clicking on the Back button.

Using your favorite web browser, navigate to your Bareos deployment’s URL. The Bareos login page appears. Type in the user name (administrator), paste the password from your password manager, and click the Login button below.

You are directed to the Bareos main page.

On a separate browser window or tab, navigate to the Bareos documentation page to learn how to use your new self-hosted backup and data recovery service.