diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 9ba7a6b..0fd096a 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 FROM postgres:14.4-bullseye
 
 COPY initScript/*.sh /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/
+COPY backup-database.sh /backup-database.sh
 RUN localedef -i fr_FR -c -f UTF-8 -A /usr/share/locale/locale.alias fr_FR.UTF-8
 ENV LANG fr_FR.utf8
 
diff --git a/backup-database.sh b/backup-database.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..5b81a3a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backup-database.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+dt=$(date '+%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S');
+fileDt=$(date '+%d_%m_%Y_%H_%M_%S');
+backUpFileName="postgres-backup-$fileDt.gz"
+backUpFilePath="$BACKUP_DESTINATION_FOLDER/$backUpFileName"
+
+echo "$dt - Starting DB backup into file: $backUpFilePath";
+echo "$dt - Running: pg_dumpall -h $BACKUP_SOURCE_DB_HOST_NAME -U $POSTGRES_USER -c | gzip > $backUpFilePath"
+
+pg_dumpall -h $BACKUP_SOURCE_DB_HOST_NAME -U $POSTGRES_USER -c | gzip > $backUpFilePath
+
+if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+  rm $backUpFilePath
+  echo "Unable to execute a BackUp. Please check DB connection settings"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+echo "$dt - DB backup completed into file: $backUpFilePath";