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@@ -254,6 +254,8 @@ Since it requires further manual steps, please also contact the <a href="mailto:
 
 <h4>Remove RC artifacts from repositories</h4>
 
+**NOTE! If you did not make a backup of docs for approved RC, this is the last time you can make a backup. This will be used to upload the docs to the website in next few step. Check out docs from svn before removing the directory.**
+
 After the vote passes and you moved the approved RC to the release repository, you should delete
 the RC directories from the staging repository. For example:
 
diff --git a/site/release-process.html b/site/release-process.html
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--- a/site/release-process.html
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@@ -391,6 +391,8 @@ <h4>Publish to CRAN</h4>
 
 <h4>Remove RC artifacts from repositories</h4>
 
+<p><strong>NOTE! If you did not make a backup of docs for approved RC, this is the last time you can make a backup. This will be used to upload the docs to the website in next few step. Check out docs from svn before removing the directory.</strong></p>
+
 <p>After the vote passes and you moved the approved RC to the release repository, you should delete
 the RC directories from the staging repository. For example:</p>