diff --git a/manifests/mysql.pp b/manifests/mysql.pp
index 83d8f8f2b0daf8432f11fd531f4a79f7f1bdb414..ee2e71d73baac806f07790843083a494d295202e 100644
--- a/manifests/mysql.pp
+++ b/manifests/mysql.pp
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ define backupninja::mysql(
   $order = 10, $ensure = present, $user = false, $dbusername = false, $dbpassword = false,
   $dbhost = 'localhost', $databases = 'all', $backupdir = false, $hotcopy = false,
   $sqldump = false, $compress = false, $configfile = true,
-  $vsname = false)
+  $vsname = false, $sqldumpoptions = '--lock-tables --complete-insert --add-drop-table --quick --quote-names')
 {
   
   $real_configfile = $configfile ? {
diff --git a/templates/mysql.conf.erb b/templates/mysql.conf.erb
index 14905fd4e5795fa2ab35ac14934db456535470cb..82dc368ec9ffd977aba49d3e721b665699741a9c 100644
--- a/templates/mysql.conf.erb
+++ b/templates/mysql.conf.erb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # the next time Puppet runs.  Please make configuration changes to this
 # service in Puppet.
 
-<% %w{user dbusername dbpassword dbhost databases backupdir vsname}.each do |v|
+<% %w{user dbusername dbpassword dbhost databases backupdir vsname sqldumpoptions}.each do |v|
 	if send(v)
 		-%><%= v + ' = ' + send(v) + "\n" %><%
 	end