diff --git a/doc/source/gitea.rst b/doc/source/gitea.rst
index ecf137e461..5a17630a76 100644
--- a/doc/source/gitea.rst
+++ b/doc/source/gitea.rst
@@ -92,9 +92,13 @@ Next we stop the gitea services::
 
   docker stop $GITEA_CONTAINER_IDS
 
-With services stopped and the container id captured we are ready to restore
-the database. We use ``docker exec`` and not ``docker-compose exec`` for
-performance reasons::
+With services stopped and the container id captured we are ready to
+restore the database.  First find the database to restore; it is
+backed up in ``/var/backups/gitea-mariadb`` on gitea hosts.  You can
+copy and uncompress it.
+
+Then restore the database (note we use ``docker exec`` and not
+``docker-compose exec`` for performance reasons)::
 
   docker exec -i $DB_CONTAINER_ID bash -c '/usr/bin/mysql -uroot -p"$MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD"' < /root/gitea-mariadb.sql
 
@@ -128,4 +132,11 @@ ecdsa key)::
 
 Then we can ask Gerrit to replicate all repo content into our new empty repos::
 
-  ssh -p 29418 $USER@review.opendev.org replication start --url giteaXY.opendev.org
+  ssh -p 29418 $USER@review.opendev.org gerrit replication start --url giteaXY.opendev.org
+
+You can monitor the progress of this with::
+
+  ssh -p 29418 $USER@review.opendev.org gerrit show-queue
+
+Once this is complete, add the server back into the haproxy as
+discussed above.