diff --git a/backend/README.md b/backend/README.md
index 0c917ee9..4b17e2d8 100644
--- a/backend/README.md
+++ b/backend/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
+# Utopia Backend
+
+To run the backend you can simply execute
+`docker-compose up`
+
+## Pull Data from Docker to Harddrive
 In order to pull data from your locally running backend (see [docker-compose](../app/docker-compose.yml)) to your local harddrive, you can run the following command
 
+
 ```
 npx directus-sync pull \
   --directus-url http://localhost:8055 \
@@ -7,6 +14,7 @@ npx directus-sync pull \
   --directus-password admin123
 ```
 
+## Push Data from Harddrive to Docker
 To push local changes or to seed directus use the following command
 ```
 npx directus-sync push \
@@ -22,6 +30,66 @@ Either keep a copy of the `/data/database` folder or run the following command t
 docker exec -t utopia-map-database-1 pg_dumpall -c -U directus > dump.sql
 ```
 
+## How to apply a database dump to the docker
+
+Assuming you run docker-compose with the default postgress credentials and have the dump in cwd as ./dump.sql, execute:
+
+Find current schema name:
+```
+echo "SELECT CURRENT_SCHEMA, CURRENT_SCHEMA();" | docker exec -i utopia-map-database-1 /bin/bash -c "PGPASSWORD=directus psql --username directus"
+``` 
+> current_schema | current_schema 
+> ----------------+----------------
+> public         | public
+> (1 row)
+
+Drop schemata (loses all data):
+```
+echo "DROP SCHEMA public CASCADE;" | docker exec -i utopia-map-database-1 /bin/bash -c "PGPASSWORD=directus psql --username directus"
+
+echo "DROP SCHEMA tiger CASCADE;" | docker exec -i utopia-map-database-1 /bin/bash -c "PGPASSWORD=directus psql --username directus"
+
+echo "DROP SCHEMA tiger_data CASCADE;" | docker exec -i utopia-map-database-1 /bin/bash -c "PGPASSWORD=directus psql --username directus"
+
+echo "DROP SCHEMA topology CASCADE;" | docker exec -i utopia-map-database-1 /bin/bash -c "PGPASSWORD=directus psql --username directus"
+``` 
+> drop cascades to table ...
+> ...
+> DROP SCHEMA
+
+Create the public schema again:
+```
+echo "CREATE SCHEMA public;" | docker exec -i utopia-map-database-1 /bin/bash -c "PGPASSWORD=directus psql --username directus"
+```
+
+Verify schemata:
+```
+echo "select schema_name from information_schema.schemata;" | docker exec -i utopia-map-database-1 /bin/bash -c "PGPASSWORD=directus psql --username directus"
+```
+
+Verify database is empty:
+```
+echo "\dt" | docker exec -i utopia-map-database-1 /bin/bash -c "PGPASSWORD=directus psql --username directus directus"
+```
+> Did not find any relations.
+
+Create admin role & grant it:
+```
+echo "CREATE ROLE admin;" | docker exec -i utopia-map-database-1 /bin/bash -c "PGPASSWORD=directus psql --username directus directus"
+```
+
+Apply dump:
+```
+docker exec -i utopia-map-database-1 /bin/bash -c "PGPASSWORD=directus psql -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 --username directus directus" < ./dump.sql
+```
+> Bring time depending on the dump size.
+
+Reassign ownership of tables:
+```
+echo "REASSIGN OWNED BY admin TO directus" | docker exec -i utopia-map-database-1 /bin/bash -c "PGPASSWORD=directus psql --username directus directus
+```
+> REASSIGN OWNED
+
 ## Access Data on local drive
 
 In order to access the postgress data mounted to the local drive at `/data/database` you need to make it accessible (assuming you are not root):
@@ -29,4 +97,4 @@ In order to access the postgress data mounted to the local drive at `/data/datab
 sudo chmod 777 -R ./data/
 ```
 
-This process is to be repeated whenever you restart the database docker container
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+This process is to be repeated whenever you restart the database docker container