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page_title: "Consul Enterprise Automated Backups"
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sidebar_current: "docs-enterprise-backups"
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Consul Enterprise provides a highly available service that manages taking snapshots, rotation and sending backup files offsite to Amazon S3.
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# Consul Enterprise Automated Backups
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Consul's core snapshot functionality allows operators to save and restore the state of
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the Consul servers for disaster recovery. Snapshots are atomic and
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point-in-time, and include key/value entries, service catalog, prepared
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queries, sessions, and ACLs.
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[Consul Enterprise](https://www.hashicorp.com/consul.html) provides a [highly
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available service](/docs/commands/snapshot/agent.html) that
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integrates with the snapshot API to automatically manage taking snapshots,
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perform rotation and send backup files offsite to Amazon S3.
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