# Automatic Admin settings backups

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-admin-settings-backups/321654>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [August 14, 2024, 3:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-admin-settings-backups/321654 "2024-08-14T15:24:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2024, 10:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-admin-settings-backups/321654/4 "2024-08-17T10:34:11Z")

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If you changed a setting a year ago and want to restore it, your suggestion would wipe out all of the other settings. The current implementation allows you to restore any value ever set to every setting individually.

What do you want to do with a settings dump file? What problem are you trying to solve?

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