How to Manage Snapshots for Vultr Instances

1 min readUpdated 26 May 2026

A process that prepares and configures a new server or service to make it ready for use.

Snapshots for Vultr instances are point-in-time images of your entire Cloud Compute instances hard drives. You can use snapshots to create backups or to replicate Cloud Compute instances. Unlike Automatic Backups for Vultr instances, you must take snapshots manually.

Follow this guide to manage Snapshots for Vultr instances using the Vultr Console, API, CLI, or Terraform.

Navigate to Products and select Compute.
Select your target Cloud Compute instance from the list.
Navigate to Snapshots, enter a label and click Take Snapshot.

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