Frequently asked questions and answers about Vultrs products, services, and platform features.
These are the frequently asked questions for Snapshots for Vultr Instances.
Vultr charges $0.05/GB per month for the compressed size of your Snapshots.
A Snapshot and an Automatic Backup are point-in-time images of Cloud Compute Instances. However, Automatic Backups run automatically but you must take a snapshot manually.
No, snapshots are not available for Bare Metal instances. If you want to backup the instances, consider installing third-party backup applications.
Vultr Snapshots span across all regions. For instance, if you provision a snapshot in London and take a snapshot, you can provision a new instance in New York using the same snapshot image.