Vultr Customer Portal

1. Navigate to Products and click Compute.
2. Click the target Vultr Optimized Cloud Compute instance to open its management page.
3. Navigate to the Snapshots tab.
4. Enter a new descriptive label in the Label field and click Create Snapshot to take a new snapshot of your instance. Snapshot creation can take 20 to 30 minutes depending on the instance size.

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 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 available instances and note your 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>