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How to Create Snapshots on a Vultr Cloud GPU Instance

Updated on 11 September, 2025

Learn how to create and manage snapshots of your Vultr Cloud GPU instance for backup and recovery purposes.

A snapshot is a point-in-time copy of the instance state that includes the file system and disk contents. Snapshots enable instant backups of an instance to enable data recovery in case of unexpected failures.

Follow this guide to create snapshots on a Vultr Cloud GPU instance using the Vultr Customer Portal, API, or CLI.

  • Vultr Customer Portal
  • Vultr API
  • Vultr CLI
  1. Navigate to Products and click Compute.
  2. Click your target instance to open its management page.
  3. Navigate to the Snapshots tab.
  4. Enter a new descriptive label in the Label field.
  5. Click Create Snapshot to take a new snapshot of your instance.

  1. Send a GET request to the List Instances endpoint and note the target instance's ID in your output.

    console 
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/instances" \
  -X GET \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"

  2. Send a POST request to the Create Snapshot endpoint to create a new snapshot of the instance.

    console 
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/snapshots" \
  -X POST \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{
    "instance_id" : "<instance-id>",
    "description" : "<label>"
  }'

  1. List all instances available in your Vultr account and note the target instance's ID.

    console 
    $ vultr-cli instance list

  2. Create a new snapshot of the instance.

    console 
    $ vultr-cli snapshot create --id <instance-id>

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