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  Consul Enterprise provides a highly available service that manages taking snapshots, rotation and sending backup files offsite to Amazon S3 (or another S3-compatible endpoint).
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# Consul Enterprise Automated Backups

Consul's core snapshot functionality allows operators to save and restore the state of
the Consul servers for disaster recovery. Snapshots are atomic and
point-in-time, and include key/value entries, service catalog, prepared
queries, sessions, and ACLs.

[Consul Enterprise](https://www.hashicorp.com/consul.html) provides a [highly
available service](/docs/commands/snapshot/agent.html) that
integrates with the snapshot API to automatically manage taking snapshots,
perform rotation and send backup files offsite to GCP, Amazon S3, or another S3-compatible endpoint.