diff --git a/core/src/main/java/de/danoeh/antennapod/core/storage/PodDBAdapter.java b/core/src/main/java/de/danoeh/antennapod/core/storage/PodDBAdapter.java
index 3fd46951d..5ff3f70df 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/de/danoeh/antennapod/core/storage/PodDBAdapter.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/de/danoeh/antennapod/core/storage/PodDBAdapter.java
@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@ package de.danoeh.antennapod.core.storage;
 import android.content.ContentValues;
 import android.content.Context;
 import android.database.Cursor;
+import android.database.DatabaseErrorHandler;
 import android.database.DatabaseUtils;
+import android.database.DefaultDatabaseErrorHandler;
 import android.database.MergeCursor;
 import android.database.SQLException;
 import android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase;
@@ -13,13 +15,12 @@ import android.media.MediaMetadataRetriever;
 import android.text.TextUtils;
 import android.util.Log;
 
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Set;
-import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
-import java.util.concurrent.locks.Lock;
-import java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantLock;
 
 import de.danoeh.antennapod.core.R;
 import de.danoeh.antennapod.core.event.ProgressEvent;
@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@ import de.danoeh.antennapod.core.service.download.DownloadStatus;
 import de.danoeh.antennapod.core.util.LongIntMap;
 import de.danoeh.antennapod.core.util.flattr.FlattrStatus;
 import de.greenrobot.event.EventBus;
+import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
 
 // TODO Remove media column from feeditem table
 
@@ -1643,6 +1645,28 @@ public class PodDBAdapter {
         return db.rawQuery(FEED_STATISTICS_QUERY, null);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Called when a database corruption happens
+     */
+    public static class PodDbErrorHandler implements DatabaseErrorHandler {
+        @Override
+        public void onCorruption(SQLiteDatabase db) {
+            Log.e(TAG, "Database corrupted: " + db.getPath());
+
+            File dbPath = new File(db.getPath());
+            File backupFolder = PodDBAdapter.context.getExternalFilesDir(null);
+            File backupFile = new File(backupFolder, "CorruptedDatabaseBackup.db");
+            try {
+                FileUtils.copyFile(dbPath, backupFile);
+                Log.d(TAG, "Dumped database to " + backupFile.getPath());
+            } catch (IOException e) {
+                Log.d(TAG, Log.getStackTraceString(e));
+            }
+
+            new DefaultDatabaseErrorHandler().onCorruption(db); // This deletes the database
+        }
+    }
+
     /**
      * Helper class for opening the Antennapod database.
      */
@@ -1661,7 +1685,7 @@ public class PodDBAdapter {
          */
         public PodDBHelper(final Context context, final String name,
                            final CursorFactory factory) {
-            super(context, name, factory, VERSION);
+            super(context, name, factory, VERSION, new PodDbErrorHandler());
             this.context = context;
         }