diff --git a/highspec/get_db.sh b/highspec/get_db.sh
index bcdf19e42dc921516315abc0ff9a5d0401173501..edc631ca0e8389b02e574df81fb476413a124273 100644
--- a/highspec/get_db.sh
+++ b/highspec/get_db.sh
@@ -3,19 +3,19 @@ mountpoint=/media/disk1
 # get compressed graph db from S3
 echo "Getting compressed graph db from S3 - START" 
 date
-aws s3 --region=us-east-2 cp s3://ebi-pdbe/neo4j/graph.db.tgz $mountpoint/
+aws s3 --region=us-east-2 cp s3://ebi-pdbe/neo4j/graph.db.bzip2 $mountpoint/
 date
 echo "Getting compressed graph db from S3 - END" 
 
-mv $mountpoint/graph.db.tgz $mountpoint/neo4j_data/databases/graph.db/
+mv $mountpoint/graph.db.bzip2 $mountpoint/neo4j_data/databases/graph.db/
 
 # uncompress graph data
 echo "Uncompress graph db - START"
 cd $mountpoint/neo4j_data/databases/graph.db
 date
-pbzip2 -dc graph.db.tgz | tar x
+pbzip2 -dc graph.db.bzip2 | tar x
 date
-rm graph.db.tgz
+rm graph.db.bzip2
 echo "Uncompress graph db - END"
 
 # echo "Starting Neo4J"