diff --git a/docs/maintenance-postgres.md b/docs/maintenance-postgres.md
index 14d5cdb9..93d0d0bf 100644
--- a/docs/maintenance-postgres.md
+++ b/docs/maintenance-postgres.md
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ This playbook can upgrade your existing Postgres setup with the following comman
 
 	ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts setup.yml --tags=upgrade-postgres
 
-**The old Postgres data directory is backed up** automatically, by renaming it to `/matrix/postgres-auto-upgrade-backup`.
+**The old Postgres data directory is backed up** automatically, by renaming it to `/matrix/postgres/data-auto-upgrade-backup`.
 To rename to a different path, pass some extra flags to the command above, like this: `--extra-vars="postgres_auto_upgrade_backup_data_path=/another/disk/matrix-postgres-before-upgrade"`
 
 The auto-upgrade-backup directory stays around forever, until you **manually decide to delete it**.