Vultr Customer Portal

1. Navigate to Products and click Compute
2. Click your target Vultr Cloud Compute 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 choose a backup schedule.
7. click Update to create automatic backups based on your selection.

Vultr API

1. Send a GET request to the List Instances endpoint and note your target instance’s ID.
   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.
   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 backup schedule attributes.

Terraform

1. Open your Terraform configuration for the existing Cloud Compute instance.
2. Enable backups and define a schedule in the configuration.
   terraformCopy

   resource "vultr_instance" "cc" {
       label       = "cc-instance-1"
       hostname    = "cc-instance-1"
       region      = "del"
       plan        = "vc2-2c-4gb"   # or vhf-*, vhp-* etc. per need
       os_id       = 2284
   
       backups = "enabled"
   
       backups_schedule {
           type = "daily"  # daily | weekly | monthly
           hour = 10       # UTC hour (0-23)
           # dow/dom only when type = "weekly" or "monthly"
           # dow = 1
           # dom = 1
       }
   }
   

3. Apply the configuration and observe the following output:

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