How to Create Snapshots of a Vultr Cloud Compute Instance

1 min readUpdated 4 November 2026

Capture a point-in-time copy of a Vultr Cloud Compute instance's disk and restore it after data loss.

A snapshot is a point-in-time copy of an instance's state, including its entire file system and disk contents. Snapshots provide a backup method that you can use to restore data after unexpected failures or data loss.

Follow this guide to create snapshots of a Vultr Cloud Compute instance using the Vultr Console, API, or CLI.

Navigate to Compute and click Instances.
Click your target Vultr Cloud Compute instance to open its management page.
Navigate to the Snapshots tab.
Enter a new descriptive label in the Label field and click Take Snapshot to take a new snapshot of your instance. Snapshot creation can take up to 30 minutes, depending on the instance size.

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