diff --git a/roles/restore_backups/tasks/main.yml b/roles/restore_backups/tasks/main.yml
index 825517b..3071044 100644
--- a/roles/restore_backups/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/restore_backups/tasks/main.yml
@@ -68,7 +68,9 @@
         overwrite: different
         bucket: "{{ atl_backup_manifest.artifacts.db.location.location | urlsplit('hostname') }}"
         object: "{{ atl_backup_manifest.artifacts.db.location.location | urlsplit('path') }}"
-        dest: "{{ atl_backup_db_dest }}"
+        # We save the backup as a .tar file so that the postgresql_db module uses pg_restore instead of psql to do restore
+        # This can be removed when ansible 2.10 is released
+        dest: "{{ atl_backup_db_dest }}.tar"
 
     - name: Fetch Home backup from S3
       aws_s3:
@@ -96,7 +98,8 @@
         template: "{{ atl_jdbc_template }}"
         # Depends on fetch_backup roles
         state: restore
-        target: "{{ atl_backup_db_dest }}"
+        target: "{{ atl_backup_db_dest }}.tar"
+        target_opts: "-Fc"
       register: result
       # managed DBs in cloud providers are not allowing full root access to the DB engine, we can safely ignore the COMMENT ON EXTENSION error
       failed_when: