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page_title: Consul Enterprise Automated Backups
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description: >-
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Consul Enterprise provides a highly available service that manages taking
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snapshots, rotation and sending backup files offsite to Amazon S3 (or
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S3-compatible endpoints), Google Cloud Storage, or Azure Blob Storage.
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# Automated Backups
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<EnterpriseAlert>
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This feature requires
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HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) or self-managed Consul Enterprise.
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Refer to the{' '}
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<a href="/docs/enterprise#consul-enterprise-feature-availability">enterprise feature matrix</a>
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{' '}for additional information.
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</EnterpriseAlert>
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Consul Enterprise enables you to run
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the snapshot agent within your environment as a service (Systemd as an example)
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or scheduled through other means. Once running, the snapshot agent service operates as a highly
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available process that integrates with the snapshot API to automatically manage
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taking snapshots, backup rotation, and sending backup files offsite to Amazon S3
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(or another S3-compatible endpoint), Google Cloud Storage, or Azure Blob Storage.
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This capability provides an enterprise solution for backup and restoring the state of Consul servers
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within an environment in an automated manner. These snapshots are atomic and point-in-time. Consul
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datacenter backups include (but are not limited to):
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- Key/Value Store Entries
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- Service Catalog Registrations
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- Prepared Queries
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- Sessions
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- Access Control Lists (ACLs)
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- Namespaces
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For more experience leveraging Consul's snapshot functionality, we suggest you look through our HashiCorp
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Learn tutorial for [Datacenter Backups in Consul](https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/backup-and-restore).
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For detailed configuration information on configuring the Consul Enterprise's snapshot agent, review the
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[Consul Snapshot Agent documentation](/commands/snapshot/agent).
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