diff --git a/dump_db.sh b/dump_db.sh
index 7466bf0..77b6a7b 100644
--- a/dump_db.sh
+++ b/dump_db.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 backuppath='/srv/backUP/sharelatex/'
 backupuser='rick-monitoring'
 lxccmd='/snap/bin/lxc'
+dbname='iq_cloud'
 
 #some validations
 if [ ! -d ${backuppath} ]
@@ -17,7 +18,7 @@ then
 fi
 
 # BackUP nc_database
-	${lxccmd} exec nc-1 -- sh -c 'mysqldump --single-transaction iq_cloud' | gzip -9 > ${backuppath}$(date +%Y_%m_%d)_nc_mysql.dump.gz
+	${lxccmd} exec nc-1 -- sh -c "mysqldump --single-transaction ${dbname}" | gzip -9 > ${backuppath}$(date +%Y_%m_%d)_nc_mysql.dump.gz
 
 
 chown -R ${backupuser}:${backupuser} ${backuppath}