diff --git a/content/en/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/configure-upgrade-etcd.md b/content/en/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/configure-upgrade-etcd.md
index d63948f0ca..5268eef369 100644
--- a/content/en/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/configure-upgrade-etcd.md
+++ b/content/en/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/configure-upgrade-etcd.md
@@ -345,7 +345,12 @@ ETCDCTL_API=3 etcdctl --endpoints 10.2.0.9:2379 snapshot restore snapshotdb
 ```
 Another example for restoring using etcdctl options:
 ```shell
-ETCDCTL_API=3 etcdctl --data-dir <data-dir-location> snapshot restore snapshotdb
+ETCDCTL_API=3 etcdctl snapshot restore --data-dir <data-dir-location> snapshotdb
+```
+Yet another example would be to first export the environment variable
+```shell
+export ETCDCTL_API=3
+etcdctl snapshot restore --data-dir <data-dir-location> snapshotdb
 ```
 
 For more information and examples on restoring a cluster from a snapshot file, see