How to Enable Automatic Backups on a Vultr Cloud Compute Instance

1 min readUpdated 4 November 2026

Schedule full backups with retention policies for a Vultr Cloud Compute instance via Console, API, or Terraform.

Automatic backups allow you to create full backups of your instance's data and file system on a scheduled basis to help you recover from unexpected failures. These backups follow specific schedules and retention policies that keep your instance backed up in your Vultr account.

Follow this guide to enable automatic backups on a Vultr Cloud Compute instance using the Vultr Console, API, or Terraform.

Navigate to Compute and click Instances.
Click your target Vultr Cloud Compute instance to open its management page.
Navigate to the Backups tab.
Click Enable Backups to turn on automatic backups.
Click Enable Backups in the confirmation prompt to enable automatic backups.
Click the Schedule backups drop-down to choose a backup schedule.
Click Update to create automatic backups based on your selection.

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