Vultr Customer Portal

1. Navigate to Products and click Compute.
2. Click your target instance to open its management page.
3. Navigate to the Snapshots tab.
4. Enter a new descriptive label in the Label field.
5. Click Create Snapshot to take a new snapshot of your instance.

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 POST request to the Create Snapshot endpoint to create a new snapshot of the instance.
   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" : "<label>"
     }'

Vultr CLI

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

   $ vultr-cli instance list
   

2. Create a new snapshot of the instance.
   console

   $ vultr-cli snapshot create --id <instance-id>