diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 01349bb2ff..5d671b11d6 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ before_install:
   - sudo apt-get install -y protobuf-compiler valgrind
 
 install: ./build.sh
-script: ./test.sh -- -clean-data
+script: ./test.sh
 
 notifications:
   irc: "chat.freenode.net#influxdb"
diff --git a/src/integration/benchmark_test.go b/src/integration/benchmark_test.go
index be20415bcc..0478af1962 100644
--- a/src/integration/benchmark_test.go
+++ b/src/integration/benchmark_test.go
@@ -134,12 +134,12 @@ func (self *IntegrationSuite) createUser() error {
 	return nil
 }
 
-var cleanData = flag.Bool("clean-data", false, "Clean data before running the benchmark tests")
+var noCleanData = flag.Bool("no-clean-data", true, "Clean data before running the benchmark tests")
 var wroteData = true
 
 func (self *IntegrationSuite) SetUpSuite(c *C) {
 
-	if *cleanData {
+	if !*noCleanData {
 		wroteData = false
 		err := os.RemoveAll("/tmp/influxdb")
 		c.Assert(err, IsNil)
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ func (self *IntegrationSuite) SetUpSuite(c *C) {
 	err := self.server.start()
 	c.Assert(err, IsNil)
 
-	if *cleanData {
+	if !*noCleanData {
 		err = self.createUser()
 		c.Assert(err, IsNil)
 	}