diff --git a/run.sh b/run.sh
index 6882b95..c65f1f4 100755
--- a/run.sh
+++ b/run.sh
@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@ elif [ -n "${INIT_RESTORE_LATEST}" ]; then
       echo "waiting database container..."
       sleep 1
   done
-  find /backup -maxdepth 1 -name '*.sql.gz' | tail -1 | xargs /restore.sh
+  # Needed to exclude the 'latest.<database>.sql.gz' file, consider only filenames starting with number
+  # Only data-tagged backups, eg. '202212250457.database.sql.gz', must be trapped by the regex
+  find /backup -maxdepth 1 -name '[0-9]*.*.sql.gz' | sort | tail -1 | xargs /restore.sh
 fi
 
 echo "${CRON_TIME} /backup.sh >> /mysql_backup.log 2>&1" > /tmp/crontab.conf