How Do I Clone or Make a Copy of a Vultr Compute Instance?

1 min readUpdated 26 October 2026

Snapshot the source Vultr instance, deploy a copy from it, and update DNS because the clone gets a new public IP.

Steps to Clone an Instance:

Create a snapshot of the source instance from the Vultr Console.
Deploy a new instance using the snapshot. This new instance will be an exact copy of the original at the time the snapshot was taken.
Note
You cannot deploy a snapshot to an instance size with a smaller disk than the original.
Update DNS records. The cloned instance receives a new public IP address. If you're using a domain name with the original instance, update its DNS records to point to the new IP.

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