Does Vultr Support Snapshots For Bare Metal Instances?

No, Vultr does not support Snapshots for Bare Metal instances. Unlike Optimized, Cloud, and Cloud GPU Compute instances, which allow on-demand full disk snapshots at the hypervisor level, Bare Metal instances run directly on physical hardware without a virtualization layer. Because of this architecture, the automated snapshot functionality available for Cloud Compute instances is not feasible for Bare Metal.

If you need to back up a Bare Metal instance, consider using third-party backup solutions or application-level backups. Consider the following:

• Use Disk Imaging Software such as Clonezilla or dd to create a full disk image of the instance and store it on separate storage.
• Use File or Directory Level Backups with tools like rsync, scp, or tar to copy important data.
• Use Managed Backup Services such as Veeam or Duplicati to perform scheduled, encrypted, and offsite backups.