diff --git a/inventory/backups b/inventory/backups
index d070dfd24e..29997df377 100644
--- a/inventory/backups
+++ b/inventory/backups
@@ -24,3 +24,4 @@ value01.phx2.fedoraproject.org
 taiga.fedorainfracloud.org
 taskotron01.qa.fedoraproject.org
 nuancier01.phx2.fedoraproject.org
+piwik.fedorainfracloud.org
diff --git a/inventory/host_vars/piwik.fedorainfracloud.org b/inventory/host_vars/piwik.fedorainfracloud.org
index 9400239efd..4084cc4348 100644
--- a/inventory/host_vars/piwik.fedorainfracloud.org
+++ b/inventory/host_vars/piwik.fedorainfracloud.org
@@ -16,3 +16,5 @@ description: piwik testing
 cloud_networks:
   # persistent-net
   - net-id: "67b77354-39a4-43de-b007-bb813ac5c35f"
+
+host_backup_targets: ['/srv/dbdump']
diff --git a/roles/piwik/README b/roles/piwik/README
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb2..0000000000
diff --git a/roles/piwik/tasks/main.yml b/roles/piwik/tasks/main.yml
index c22d809f9b..6430dca7f1 100644
--- a/roles/piwik/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/piwik/tasks/main.yml
@@ -31,3 +31,6 @@
   tags:
   - config
   - piwik
+
+- name: database dump cron
+  cron: name=dbdump special_time=daily job="mysqldump --skip-extended-insert piwik | gzip -9 > /srv/dbdump/piwik.sql.gz"