diff --git a/Duplicati/Library/Main/Operation/RecreateDatabaseHandler.cs b/Duplicati/Library/Main/Operation/RecreateDatabaseHandler.cs
index acc463278..dcb0ffe3f 100644
--- a/Duplicati/Library/Main/Operation/RecreateDatabaseHandler.cs
+++ b/Duplicati/Library/Main/Operation/RecreateDatabaseHandler.cs
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ namespace Duplicati.Library.Main.Operation
             using(var backend = new BackendManager(m_backendurl, m_options, m_result.BackendWriter, restoredb))
             {
                 restoredb.RepairInProgress = true;
-
+                var autoDetectBlockSize = !(m_options.HasBlocksize && restoredb.GetDbOptions().ContainsKey("blocksize"));                    
                 var volumeIds = new Dictionary<string, long>();
 
                 var rawlist = backend.List();
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ namespace Duplicati.Library.Main.Operation
 
                                 var parsed = VolumeBase.ParseFilename(entry.Name);
 
-                                if (!hasUpdatedOptions && !updating) 
+                                if (!hasUpdatedOptions && (!updating || autoDetectBlockSize)) 
                                 {
                                     VolumeReaderBase.UpdateOptionsFromManifest(parsed.CompressionModule, tmpfile, m_options);
                                     hasUpdatedOptions = true;
diff --git a/Duplicati/Library/Main/Options.cs b/Duplicati/Library/Main/Options.cs
index 71d998fa6..60760a8c1 100644
--- a/Duplicati/Library/Main/Options.cs
+++ b/Duplicati/Library/Main/Options.cs
@@ -1457,6 +1457,11 @@ namespace Duplicati.Library.Main
             }
         }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Gets a value indicating whether a blocksize has been specified
+        /// </summary>
+        public bool HasBlocksize { get { return m_options.ContainsKey("blocksize") && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(m_options["blocksize"]); } }
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Gets the size of file-blocks
         /// </summary>