diff --git a/deploy/mongodb/templates/actionset-datafile.yaml b/deploy/mongodb/templates/actionset-datafile.yaml
index 3f500d26fec..75c48af53ae 100644
--- a/deploy/mongodb/templates/actionset-datafile.yaml
+++ b/deploy/mongodb/templates/actionset-datafile.yaml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ spec:
     prepareData:
       image: {{ .Values.image.registry | default "docker.io" }}/{{ .Values.image.repository }}:{{ .Values.image.tag }}
       command:
-      - sh
+      - bash
       - -c
       - |
         {{- .Files.Get "dataprotection/datafile-restore.sh" | nindent 8 }}
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ spec:
     prepareData:
       image: {{ .Values.image.registry | default "docker.io" }}/{{ .Values.image.repository }}:{{ .Values.image.tag }}
       command:
-      - sh
+      - bash
       - -c
       - "touch ${DATA_DIR}/mongodb.backup; sync"
     postReady: []
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/deploy/mongodb/templates/actionset-dump.yaml b/deploy/mongodb/templates/actionset-dump.yaml
index 97ac4a868a8..bc18b8ea186 100644
--- a/deploy/mongodb/templates/actionset-dump.yaml
+++ b/deploy/mongodb/templates/actionset-dump.yaml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ spec:
         image: {{ .Values.image.registry | default "docker.io" }}/{{ .Values.image.repository }}:{{ .Values.image.tag }}
         runOnTargetPodNode: false
         command:
-        - sh
+        - bash
         - -c
         - |
           {{- .Files.Get "dataprotection/mongodump-restore.sh" | nindent 10 }}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/deploy/qdrant/scripts/qdrant-restore.sh b/deploy/qdrant/scripts/qdrant-restore.sh
index a913679febe..809a32ee82a 100644
--- a/deploy/qdrant/scripts/qdrant-restore.sh
+++ b/deploy/qdrant/scripts/qdrant-restore.sh
@@ -18,10 +18,15 @@ mkdir -p "${SNAPSHOT_DIR}"
 datasafed pull "${SNAPSHOT_FILE}" "${SNAPSHOT_DIR}/${SNAPSHOT_FILE}"
 
 # start qdrant restore process
-qdrant --storage-snapshot "${SNAPSHOT_DIR}/${SNAPSHOT_FILE}"  --config-path /qdrant/config/config.yaml  --force-snapshot --uri http://localhost:6333 &
+/qdrant/qdrant --storage-snapshot "${SNAPSHOT_DIR}/${SNAPSHOT_FILE}"  --config-path /qdrant/config/config.yaml  --force-snapshot --uri http://localhost:6333 2>&1 | tee "${DATA_DIR}/restore.log" &
 
 # wait until restore finished
-until curl http://localhost:6333/cluster; do sleep 1; done
+# note: if we have curl, we can detect it this way
+#   until curl http://localhost:6333/cluster; do sleep 1; done
+until grep -q "Qdrant HTTP listening on" "${DATA_DIR}/restore.log"; do
+  sleep 1
+done
+rm "${DATA_DIR}/restore.log"
 
 # restore finished, we can kill the restore process now
 pid=`pidof qdrant`
diff --git a/deploy/qdrant/templates/actionset-datafile.yaml b/deploy/qdrant/templates/actionset-datafile.yaml
index 6ea586031b4..e668b47dc7f 100644
--- a/deploy/qdrant/templates/actionset-datafile.yaml
+++ b/deploy/qdrant/templates/actionset-datafile.yaml
@@ -14,9 +14,10 @@ spec:
     preBackup: []
     postBackup: []
     backupData:
-      image: apecloud/curl-jq:latest
+      image: {{ .Values.images.registry | default "docker.io" }}/{{ .Values.images.tools.repository}}:{{ .Values.images.tools.tag | default "latest" }}
       runOnTargetPodNode: false
       command:
+      # no bash available in the image
       - sh
       - -c
       - |
@@ -26,9 +27,9 @@ spec:
         intervalSeconds: 5
   restore:
     prepareData:
-      image: apecloud/curl-jq:latest
+      image: {{ .Values.images.registry | default "docker.io" }}/{{ .Values.images.repository}}:{{ include "qdrant.version" . | default .Values.images.tag }}
       command:
-      - sh
+      - bash
       - -c
       - |
         {{- .Files.Get "scripts/qdrant-restore.sh" | nindent 8 }}