diff --git a/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/fas.yml b/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/fas.yml
index 3677ff080d..cb3ad96f5f 100644
--- a/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/fas.yml
+++ b/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/fas.yml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 
   tasks:
   - name: Dumping the production db. This might take a minute. Go out to the lobby!
-    command: pg_dump -C fas2 |xz -c /var/tmp/fas2.dump.xz
+    shell: pg_dump -C fas2 |xz -c /var/tmp/fas2.dump.xz
 
 - name: drop and re-create the staging db entirely
   hosts: db-fas01.stg.phx2.fedoraproject.org