github.com/sl1pm4t/consul@v1.4.5-0.20190325224627-74c31c540f9c/website/source/docs/enterprise/backups/index.html.md (about) 1 --- 2 layout: "docs" 3 page_title: "Consul Enterprise Automated Backups" 4 sidebar_current: "docs-enterprise-backups" 5 description: |- 6 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). 7 --- 8 9 # Consul Enterprise Automated Backups 10 11 Consul's core snapshot functionality allows operators to save and restore the state of 12 the Consul servers for disaster recovery. Snapshots are atomic and 13 point-in-time, and include key/value entries, service catalog, prepared 14 queries, sessions, and ACLs. 15 16 [Consul Enterprise](https://www.hashicorp.com/consul.html) provides a [highly 17 available service](/docs/commands/snapshot/agent.html) that 18 integrates with the snapshot API to automatically manage taking snapshots, 19 perform rotation and send backup files offsite to Amazon S3 (or another S3-compatible endpoint).