Title: Exclude Users?
Last modified: October 22, 2023

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# Exclude Users?

 *  Resolved [johnywhy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnywhy/)
 * (@johnywhy)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-users-5/)
 * Hello, is it possible to exclude accounts from a backup/restore, or from staging?
 * My source site has accounts Dev1 and Dev2.
 * My destination site has accounts Founder, Member1, Subscriber2, etc.
 * I don’t want the Dev accounts in the source site to overwrite the accounts in
   the destination site.

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 *  Plugin Support [nicholas2019](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicholas2019/)
 * (@nicholas2019)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-users-5/#post-17141469)
 * Hello,
 * WPvivid plugin cannot exclude specific WordPress users during the restoration
   of a backup. Therefore, the existing WordPress users are overwritten with those
   from the backup once the restoration process is completed.
 * Kind regards.
 *  Thread Starter [johnywhy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnywhy/)
 * (@johnywhy)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-users-5/#post-17141662)
 * I’m not asking to exclude specific users.
 * I’m asking to exclude all users.
 *  Plugin Support [tonyrobins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tonyrobins/)
 * (@tonyrobins)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-users-5/#post-17142007)
 * Hi [@johnywhy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnywhy/)
 * The free version does not support excluding tables. You can use the pro version
   to exclude _users and _usermeta tables from the restoration, so users on Dev2
   will not be overwritten.
 * All the best,

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 * [staging](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/staging/)

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 * Last reply from: [tonyrobins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tonyrobins/)
 * Last activity: [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-users-5/#post-17142007)
 * Status: resolved