diff --git a/src/en/administration/backup_and_restore.md b/src/en/administration/backup_and_restore.md
index 190b9b1..3b2ed9c 100644
--- a/src/en/administration/backup_and_restore.md
+++ b/src/en/administration/backup_and_restore.md
@@ -6,17 +6,18 @@ When using docker or ansible, there should be a `volumes` folder, which contains
 
 ### Incremental Database backup
 
-To incrementally backup the DB to an `.sql` file, you can run: 
+To incrementally backup the DB to an `.sql.gz` file, you can run:
 
 ```bash
-docker-compose exec postgres pg_dumpall -c -U lemmy >  lemmy_dump_`date +%Y-%m-%d"_"%H_%M_%S`.sql
+docker-compose exec postgres pg_dumpall -c -U lemmy | gzip > lemmy_dump_`date +%Y-%m-%d"_"%H_%M_%S`.sql.gz
 ```
+
 ### A Sample backup script
 
 ```bash
 #!/bin/sh
 # DB Backup
-ssh MY_USER@MY_IP "docker-compose exec postgres pg_dumpall -c -U lemmy" >  ~/BACKUP_LOCATION/INSTANCE_NAME_dump_`date +%Y-%m-%d"_"%H_%M_%S`.sql
+ssh MY_USER@MY_IP "docker-compose exec postgres pg_dumpall -c -U lemmy" | gzip > ~/BACKUP_LOCATION/INSTANCE_NAME_dump_`date +%Y-%m-%d"_"%H_%M_%S`.sql.gz
 
 # Volumes folder Backup
 rsync -avP -zz --rsync-path="sudo rsync" MY_USER@MY_IP:/LEMMY_LOCATION/volumes ~/BACKUP_LOCATION/FOLDERNAME
@@ -30,8 +31,8 @@ If you need to restore from a `pg_dumpall` file, you need to first clear out you
 # Drop the existing DB
 docker exec -i FOLDERNAME_postgres_1 psql -U lemmy -c "DROP SCHEMA public CASCADE; CREATE SCHEMA public;"
 
-# Restore from the .sql backup
-cat db_dump.sql  |  docker exec -i FOLDERNAME_postgres_1 psql -U lemmy # restores the db
+# Restore from the .sql.gz backup
+gunzip < db_dump.sql  |  docker exec -i FOLDERNAME_postgres_1 psql -U lemmy # restores the db
 
 # This also might be necessary when doing a db import with a different password.
 docker exec -i FOLDERNAME_postgres_1 psql -U lemmy -c "alter user lemmy with password 'bleh'"
@@ -41,7 +42,7 @@ docker exec -i FOLDERNAME_postgres_1 psql -U lemmy -c "alter user lemmy with pas
 
 If you haven't federated yet, you can change your domain name in the DB. **Warning: do not do this after you've federated, or it will break federation.**
 
-Get into `psql` for your docker: 
+Get into `psql` for your docker:
 
 `docker-compose exec postgres psql -U lemmy`
 
@@ -73,5 +74,3 @@ update community set shared_inbox_url = replace (shared_inbox_url, 'old_domain',
 ## More resources
 
 - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24718706/backup-restore-a-dockerized-postgresql-database
-
-