diff --git a/.docker/Dockerfile b/.docker/Dockerfile
index 4ad0d623a04d58df2c5174b3a5bbfc0845749a8b..43e5eff1171da8d69eb8897bea678bf90572570a 100644
--- a/.docker/Dockerfile
+++ b/.docker/Dockerfile
@@ -31,4 +31,4 @@ RUN rm -r /git/.git \
     && mv /git/.docker/pycaosdb.ini /git/integrationtests
 RUN cd /git && pip3 install .[h5-crawler]
 WORKDIR /git/integrationtests
-CMD /wait-for-it.sh caosdb-server:10443 -t 500 -- ./test.sh
+CMD /wait-for-it.sh caosdb-server:10443 -t 500 -- ./test.sh --force
diff --git a/integrationtests/test.sh b/integrationtests/test.sh
index 80a2afe307ab1da628faa39d4ba8ef93bc6959e4..5efd549551670d3a4581380271ac2aba4b80a10f 100755
--- a/integrationtests/test.sh
+++ b/integrationtests/test.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,18 @@
 #!/bin/bash
+if [ "$1" != "--force" ]
+then
+    echo "Warning: For these tests, the whole database will be deleted. Do you want to proceed? (yes/Exit)"
+    read safety
+    if [ -z $safety ]
+    then
+        echo "Exiting..."
+        exit 0
+    elif [ $safety != "yes" ]
+    then
+        echo "Exiting..."
+        exit 0
+    fi
+fi
 OUT=/tmp/crawler.output
 ls 
 cat pycaosdb.ini