Title: Added User Role Backups
Author: WordPress VIP Documentation
Published: February 17, 2021
Last modified: August 5, 2025

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 3. Added User Role Backups

# Added User Role Backups

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 17 February 2021

23:42:55 GMT+0000

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This change adds an automated daily backup of the user roles option that can be 
used to recover roles if they are corrupted. It also adds some CLI commands to aid
in managing these backups.