diff --git a/roles/piwik/tasks/main.yml b/roles/piwik/tasks/main.yml
index 6430dca7f1..ba05cecfa8 100644
--- a/roles/piwik/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/piwik/tasks/main.yml
@@ -32,5 +32,8 @@
   - config
   - piwik
 
+- name: Create directory for db backup
+  file: path=/srv/dbdump state=directory
+
 - name: database dump cron
   cron: name=dbdump special_time=daily job="mysqldump --skip-extended-insert piwik | gzip -9 > /srv/dbdump/piwik.sql.gz"