diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index cb8e97bc..67ac19ec 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -49,4 +49,5 @@ client/cypress/test-reports/
 server/test-reports/
 .direnv
 *.prod.sql
-latest.dump
+latest.dump*
+dump*.sql
diff --git a/server/dump_local_database.sh b/server/dump_local_database.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8781cc14
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/dump_local_database.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+pgdump $DATABASE_URL > dump_local_`date +%d-%m-%Y"_"%H_%M_%S`.sql
+