diff --git a/fhem/configDB.pm b/fhem/configDB.pm
index 0dcdb4362..fe982d0b9 100644
--- a/fhem/configDB.pm
+++ b/fhem/configDB.pm
@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ sub cfgDB_Init {
 #	Create non-existing database tables 
 #	Create default config entries if necessary
 #
+
 	my $fhem_dbh = _cfgDB_Connect;
 
 	eval { $fhem_dbh->do("CREATE EXTENSION \"uuid-ossp\"") if($cfgDB_dbtype eq 'POSTGRESQL'); };
@@ -399,6 +400,11 @@ sub _cfgDB_Uuid{
 	return $uuid;
 }
 
+sub _cfgDB_backupdata {
+	my (undef, $cfgDB_dblocation) = split(/=/,$cfgDB_dbconn);
+	return ($cfgDB_dbtype,$cfgDB_dblocation);
+}
+
 ##################################################
 # Tools / Additional functions
 # not called from fhem.pl directly