diff --git a/admin_manual/maintenance/restore.rst b/admin_manual/maintenance/restore.rst
index e2b2c72e5..6579af943 100644
--- a/admin_manual/maintenance/restore.rst
+++ b/admin_manual/maintenance/restore.rst
@@ -8,18 +8,18 @@ restore:
 #. The configuration directory
 #. The data directory
 #. The database
-# The theme directory
+#. The theme directory
 
-.. note:: You must have both the database and data directory. You cannot 
+.. note:: You must have both the database and data directory. You cannot
    complete restoration unless you have both of these.
 
-When you have completed your restoration, see the ``Setting Strong Directory 
+When you have completed your restoration, see the ``Setting Strong Directory
 Permissions`` section of :doc:`../installation/installation_wizard`.
 
 Restore Folders
 ---------------
 
-.. note:: This guide assumes that your previous backup is called 
+.. note:: This guide assumes that your previous backup is called
    "nextcloud-dirbkp"
 
 Simply copy your configuration and data folder (or even your whole Nextcloud
@@ -30,7 +30,39 @@ install and data folder) to your Nextcloud environment. You could use this comma
 Restore Database
 ----------------
 
-.. note:: This guide assumes that your previous backup is called 
+Clean Database Before Restoring
+===============================
+
+.. warning:: Before restoring a backup you need to make sure to delete all existing database tables.
+
+The easiest way to do this is to drop and recreate the database.
+SQLite does this automatically.
+
+MySQL
+^^^^^
+
+MySQL is the recommended database engine. To restore MySQL::
+
+   mysql -h [server] -u [username] -p[password] -e "DROP DATABASE nextcloud"
+   mysql -h [server] -u [username] -p[password] -e "CREATE DATABASE nextcloud"
+
+If you use UTF8 with multibyte support (e.g. for emoijs in filenames), use::
+
+   mysql -h [server] -u [username] -p[password] -e "DROP DATABASE nextcloud"
+   mysql -h [server] -u [username] -p[password] -e "CREATE DATABASE nextcloud CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_general_ci"
+
+
+PostgreSQL
+^^^^^^^^^^
+::
+
+    PGPASSWORD="password" psql -h [server] -U [username] -d nextcloud -c "DROP DATABASE \"nextcloud\";"
+    PGPASSWORD="password" psql -h [server] -U [username] -d nextcloud -c "CREATE DATABASE \"nextcloud\";"
+
+Restoring
+=========
+
+.. note:: This guide assumes that your previous backup is called
    "nextcloud-sqlbkp.bak"
 
 MySQL
@@ -44,8 +76,8 @@ SQLite
 ^^^^^^
 ::
 
-    rm data/nextcloud.db
-    sqlite3 data/nextcloud.db < nextcloud-sqlbkp.bak
+    rm data/owncloud.db
+    sqlite3 data/owncloud.db < nextcloud-sqlbkp.bak
 
 PostgreSQL
 ^^^^^^^^^^