diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/pull-5054 b/changelog/unreleased/pull-5054
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6efd5882c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/unreleased/pull-5054
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+Enhancement: Compress ZIP archives created by `dump` command
+
+Restic did not compress the archives that were created by using
+the `dump` command. It now saves some disk space when exporting
+archives using the DEFLATE algorithm for "zip" archives.
+
+https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/5054
diff --git a/internal/dump/zip.go b/internal/dump/zip.go
index d32475770..17aeb4829 100644
--- a/internal/dump/zip.go
+++ b/internal/dump/zip.go
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ func (d *Dumper) dumpNodeZip(ctx context.Context, node *restic.Node, zw *zip.Wri
 		Modified:           node.ModTime,
 	}
 	header.SetMode(node.Mode)
+	if node.Type == restic.NodeTypeFile {
+		header.Method = zip.Deflate
+	}
 
 	if node.Type == restic.NodeTypeDir {
 		header.Name += "/"
diff --git a/internal/dump/zip_test.go b/internal/dump/zip_test.go
index 6f5f60f54..c6eb04206 100644
--- a/internal/dump/zip_test.go
+++ b/internal/dump/zip_test.go
@@ -101,6 +101,9 @@ func checkZip(t *testing.T, testDir string, srcZip *bytes.Buffer) error {
 				return fmt.Errorf("symlink target does not match, got %s want %s", string(linkName), target)
 			}
 		default:
+			if f.Method != zip.Deflate {
+				return fmt.Errorf("expected compression method got %v want %v", f.Method, zip.Deflate)
+			}
 			if uint64(match.Size()) != f.UncompressedSize64 {
 				return fmt.Errorf("size does not match got %v want %v", f.UncompressedSize64, match.Size())
 			}