diff --git a/admin_manual/maintenance/backup.rst b/admin_manual/maintenance/backup.rst
index 322afbf79..ee113a147 100644
--- a/admin_manual/maintenance/backup.rst
+++ b/admin_manual/maintenance/backup.rst
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ MySQL/MariaDB
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
 MySQL or MariaDB, which is a drop-in MySQL replacement, is the recommended
-database engine. To backup MySQL/MariaDB::
+database engine. To backup **MySQL**::
 
     mysqldump --single-transaction -h [server] -u [username] -p[password] [db_name] > nextcloud-sqlbkp_`date +"%Y%m%d"`.bak
 
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ If you use enabled MySQL/MariaDB 4-byte support (:doc:`../configuration_database
 
     mysqldump --single-transaction --default-character-set=utf8mb4 -h [server] -u [username] -p[password] [db_name] > nextcloud-sqlbkp_`date +"%Y%m%d"`.bak
 
+To backup **MariaDB**, replace `mysqldump` with `mariadb-dump` in the above commands.
+
 SQLite
 ^^^^^^
 ::