# Rollback settings-changes right from Admin -\> Logs page
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/rollback-settings-changes-right-from-admin-logs-page/22238
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [November 17, 2014, 3:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rollback-settings-changes-right-from-admin-logs-page/22238 "2014-11-17T15:48:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@hedgehog](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hedgehog)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2014, 3:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rollback-settings-changes-right-from-admin-logs-page/22238/1 "2014-11-17T15:48:11Z")
Having all settings-changes added to the log is incredibly useful.
How about a button to roll-back certain changes to the old value to make rolling back even easier?
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2014, 5:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rollback-settings-changes-right-from-admin-logs-page/22238/2 "2014-11-17T17:38:50Z")
What’s the use case for this?
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### Author:  [@hedgehog](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hedgehog)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2014, 10:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rollback-settings-changes-right-from-admin-logs-page/22238/3 "2014-11-18T10:21:15Z")
One of the other admins on my Discourse-instance changed the banner instead of the logo and he wanted to rollback the change. All I had to do was to look in the Logs, copy the old value and change the settings. Being able to directly roll back a setting would improve this workflow which seems like a common use-case.
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2014, 5:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rollback-settings-changes-right-from-admin-logs-page/22238/4 "2014-11-18T17:39:14Z")
We have the “Reset Default” option that people seem to like, but I’m not sure how often people would need to reset settings to previous values. Personally I haven’t done it much.
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2014, 6:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rollback-settings-changes-right-from-admin-logs-page/22238/5 "2014-11-18T18:40:34Z")
Perhaps a place to start would be to allow saving a snapshot of the site settings to restore to (this was also discussed over here):
> [@Backup site settings only (without any user content)?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-site-settings-only-without-any-user-content/21513):
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> Maybe I’m missing something, but here’s a thought that occurred to me while fiddling with my import scripts: wouldn’t it be nice if we had a backup feature that deals only with the site’s settings, but not the contents (posts, categories, uploads etc. should be left out)? This would be a) somewhat reassuring if you had a staff of more than one who are allowed in the admin section. Plus b) it would ease my (admittedly somehow unstructured blush) import efforts, since I run an import (lengthy o…
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 11:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rollback-settings-changes-right-from-admin-logs-page/22238/6 "2025-12-04T11:32:49Z")