Vultr Customer Portal

1. Navigate to Products and click Compute.
2. Click your target instance to open its management page.
3. Navigate to the Backups tab.
4. Click Enable Backups to turn on automatic backups.
5. Click Enable Backups in the confirmation prompt to enable automatic backups.
6. Click the Schedule Backups drop down to select a back up schedule.
7. Click Update to create automatic backups based on set the schedule.

Vultr API

1. Send a GET request to the List Instances endpoint and note the target instance’s ID in your output.
   console

   $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/instances" \
     -X GET \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"
   

2. Send a PATCH request to the Update Instance endpoint to update the instance and enable automatic backups.
   console

   $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/instances/{instance-id}" \
     -X PATCH \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     --data '{
       "backups" : "enabled"
     }'
   

3. Send a POST request to the Set Instance Backup Schedule endpoint to create a new automatic backups schedule to enable on your instance.
   console

   $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/instances/{instance-id}/backup-schedule" \
     -X POST \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     --data '{
       "type": "daily",
       "hour": 10,
       "dow": 1,
       "dom": 1
     }'
   

   Visit the Set Instance Backup Schedule API page to view additional schedule attributes to create automatic backups.

Vultr CLI

1. List all instances in your Vultr account and note the target instance’s ID.
   console

   $ vultr-cli instance list
   

2. Create a new automatic backups schedule using the target instance’s ID.
   console

   $ vultr-cli instance backup create e56d93ea-41c4-4dbe-93e2-537c552cf2fb --type daily --hour 10 --dow 1 --dom 1
   

   Run vultr-cli instance backup create --help to view more additional schedule options to create automatic backups.

Terraform

1. Open your Terraform configuration for the existing Cloud GPU instance.
2. Update the backups value in the instance resource to "enabled".
   terraform

   resource "vultr_instance" "gpu" {
       # ...existing fields (region, plan, label, etc.)
   
       backups = "enabled"  # Enable automatic backups
   }
   

3. Apply the configuration and observe the following output:

   Apply complete! Resources: 0 added, 1 changed, 0 destroyed.