How to Enable Automatic Backups on a Vultr Cloud GPU Instance

1 min readUpdated 26 May 2026

Automatic Backups enable the creation of a full backup of your instance data and file system using a specific schedule for recovery in case of unexpected failures. Automatic backups use specific backup schedule intervals and retention policies to ensure your instance is backed up in your Vultr account.

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

Navigate to Products and click Compute.
Click your target 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 select a back up schedule.
Click Update to create automatic backups based on set the schedule.

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