diff --git a/scripts/backup.sh b/scripts/backup.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+set -eu
+
+
+# Resolve script directory. See http://stackoverflow.com/a/246128/107049
+SOURCE="${BASH_SOURCE[0]}"
+while [ -h "$SOURCE" ]; do # resolve $SOURCE until the file is no longer a symlink
+  DIR="$( cd -P "$( dirname "$SOURCE" )" && pwd )"
+  SOURCE="$(readlink "$SOURCE")"
+  [[ $SOURCE != /* ]] && SOURCE="$DIR/$SOURCE" # if $SOURCE was a relative symlink, we need to resolve it relative to the path where the symlink file was located
+done
+DIR="$( cd -P "$( dirname "$SOURCE" )" && pwd )"
+
+
+
+if [[ $# -ne 1 ]]; then
+	cat >&2 <<-EOT
+		ERROR: missing destination file path
+
+		$(basename $0) <backup.sql>
+EOT
+	exit 1
+else
+	SQL_FILE=$1
+fi
+
+
+
+cd "${DIR}/.."
+exec docker-compose run --rm postgres pg_dumpall --host postgres --user postgres --clean > "${SQL_FILE}"
+