### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [Abril 15, 2019, 8:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-restoring-a-backup-the-disable-email-will-be-set-to-non-staff-from-no/115143/3 "2019-04-15T20:07:35Z")
That’s not a bug. It’s a feature that was added a long time ago, but it was broken for as long as I can remember. 🙂
I fixed it two months ago in [FIX: Outgoing emails were not disabled after restoring backup · discourse/discourse@dc961fe · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/dc961fecb9c28be5e8f161a82616148be6a9facc#diff-f59428cd341969776f9ebf8c157b83c7)
You can disabled that behavior when you restore from the command line:
```plaintext
discourse restore --disable_emails=false
```
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [Abril 15, 2019, 8:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-restoring-a-backup-the-disable-email-will-be-set-to-non-staff-from-no/115143/4 "2019-04-15T20:11:36Z")
> [@gerhard](#):
>
> It’s a feature that was added a long time ago, but it was broken for as long as I can remember. 🙂
_A documented bug is a feature._ Everyone knows that.
But a broken feature. . . . Hmm.
I’m very happy that this has been fixed. In addition to nearly every time I restore a backup having to worry that it’ll start spewing email. This is also very handy for staging sites that can now safely restore a backup and not have to worry about mail going out (my previous solution was to just make the mail settings invalid).
🎉 This is fantastic. 🎉
Being able to disable the now un-broken behavior is fine too. 🙂
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### Author:  [@michaeld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/michaeld)
#### Post date: [Abril 15, 2019, 8:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-restoring-a-backup-the-disable-email-will-be-set-to-non-staff-from-no/115143/5 "2019-04-15T20:20:12Z")
OP says it is being set to non-staff from no.
So if it was completely disabled, it’s now partially enabled (for staff).
That doesn’t seem desired behavior?
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [Abril 15, 2019, 8:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-restoring-a-backup-the-disable-email-will-be-set-to-non-staff-from-no/115143/6 "2019-04-15T20:34:54Z")
Oh, good catch! I missed that detail in the topic title. 😊
Well, then it’s a bug. It will be fixed.
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [Abril 16, 2019, 6:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-restoring-a-backup-the-disable-email-will-be-set-to-non-staff-from-no/115143/8 "2019-04-16T06:26:47Z")
> [@michaeld](#):
>
> OP says it is being set to non-staff from no.
> So if it was completely disabled, it’s now partially enabled (for staff).
`disable emails` being set to `no` means: do _not_ disable emails for any user. So it’s completely enabled.
That said, I prefer the existing behaviour of setting `disable emails` to `non-staff` regardless of prior setting value as I can be sure that whatever be the case, email will always be enabled for me as staff on site I am restoring.
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### Author:  [@skygunner](https://meta.discourse.org/u/skygunner)
#### Post date: [Abril 16, 2019, 8:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-restoring-a-backup-the-disable-email-will-be-set-to-non-staff-from-no/115143/9 "2019-04-16T08:00:52Z")
That’s cool. If it’s a feature.
it could be useful for some people , when you do not want to have mails sent to members while a backup is restored.
For me, I thought when I restore something, the settings should be just exactly same as when I did the backup, that’s why I opened this topic.
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [Abril 16, 2019, 9:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-restoring-a-backup-the-disable-email-will-be-set-to-non-staff-from-no/115143/10 "2019-04-16T09:58:22Z")
There was a bug in there after all. It’s fixed.
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/3aca0703116c5d9b776835c5d00c84c4d6592062](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/3aca0703116c5d9b776835c5d00c84c4d6592062)
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [Abril 16, 2019, 9:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-restoring-a-backup-the-disable-email-will-be-set-to-non-staff-from-no/115143/11 "2019-04-16T09:58:26Z")