diff --git a/app/Console/Commands/RestoreFromBackup.php b/app/Console/Commands/RestoreFromBackup.php
index 846c2933c56..32d450b553a 100644
--- a/app/Console/Commands/RestoreFromBackup.php
+++ b/app/Console/Commands/RestoreFromBackup.php
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ public function parse_sql(string $line): string {
             /* we *could* have made the ^INSERT INTO blah VALUES$ turn on the capturing state, and closed it with
                a ^(blahblah);$ but it's cleaner to not have to manage the state machine. We're just going to
                assume that (blahblah), or (blahblah); are values for INSERT and are always acceptable. */
+            "<^/\*!40101 SET NAMES '?[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+'? \*/;$>"                                   => false, //using weird delimiters (<,>) for readability. allow quoted or unquoted charsets
+            "<^/\*!40101 SET @OLD_SQL_MODE=@@SQL_MODE, SQL_MODE='NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO' \*/;$>" => false, //same, now handle zero-values
         ];
 
         foreach($allowed_statements as $statement => $statechange) {