Vultr Customer Portal

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

Vultr API

1. Send a GET request to the List Instances endpoint to get the Cloud Compute instance ID.
   console

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

2. Send a POST request to the Create Snapshot endpoint specifying a cloud compute instance ID to create a snapshot.
   console

   $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/snapshots" \
       -X POST \
       -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}" \
           -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
           --data '{
               "instance_id" : "instance_id",
               "description" : "Weekly-Snapshot-14-08-2024"
           }'
   

   Visit the Create Snapshot endpoint to view additional attributes to add to your request.

3. Send a GET request to the List Snapshots endpoint to view all snapshots.
   console

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

Vultr CLI

1. List all cloud compute instances and note the instance ID.
   console

   $ vultr-cli instance list
   

2. Create a snapshot by specifying the Cloud Compute instance ID and the snapshot description.
   console

   $ vultr-cli snapshot create --id instance_id --description "Weekly Snapshot 14-08-2024"
   

3. List all snapshots.
   console

   $ vultr-cli snapshot list
   

   Run vultr-cli snapshot create --help to view all options.

Terraform

1. Create a snapshot from an existing instance.
   terraform

   resource "vultr_snapshot" "weekly" {
       instance_id = var.instance_id
       description = "Weekly-Snapshot-14-08-2024"
   }
   

2. Optionally, boot a new instance from a snapshot by setting snapshot_id.
   terraform

   resource "vultr_instance" "from_snapshot" {
       region      = "ewr"
       plan        = "vc2-2c-4gb"
       label       = "restored"
       snapshot_id = vultr_snapshot.weekly.id
   }
   

3. Apply the configuration and observe the following output:

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