diff --git a/docs/installation-and-operations/operation/restoring/README.md b/docs/installation-and-operations/operation/restoring/README.md
index 460203ae28..f73e2da8c4 100644
--- a/docs/installation-and-operations/operation/restoring/README.md
+++ b/docs/installation-and-operations/operation/restoring/README.md
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ First we create the folder to be mounted by our OpenProject container.
 While we're at we also create the assets folder which should be mounted too.
 
 ```
-mkdir /var/lib/openproject/{pgdata,assets}
+mkdir -p /var/lib/openproject/{pgdata,assets}
 ```
 
 #### 2) Initialize the database