diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 36936d9cb..4c9617560 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-VERSION := 0.5.0
+VERSION := 0.5.1
 
 # Name of this service/application
 SERVICE_NAME := redis-operator
diff --git a/operator/redisfailover/service/generator.go b/operator/redisfailover/service/generator.go
index e59761d9e..fb86b9611 100644
--- a/operator/redisfailover/service/generator.go
+++ b/operator/redisfailover/service/generator.go
@@ -118,7 +118,9 @@ func generateRedisConfigMap(rf *redisfailoverv1alpha2.RedisFailover, labels map[
 		},
 		Data: map[string]string{
 			redisConfigFileName: `slaveof 127.0.0.1 6379
-tcp-keepalive 60`,
+tcp-keepalive 60
+save 900 1
+save 300 10`,
 		},
 	}
 }
@@ -138,6 +140,7 @@ func generateRedisShutdownConfigMap(rf *redisfailoverv1alpha2.RedisFailover, lab
 		},
 		Data: map[string]string{
 			"shutdown.sh": `master=$(redis-cli -h ${RFS_REDIS_SERVICE_HOST} -p ${RFS_REDIS_SERVICE_PORT_SENTINEL} --csv SENTINEL get-master-addr-by-name mymaster | tr ',' ' ' | tr -d '\"' |cut -d' ' -f1)
+redis-cli SAVE
 if [[ $master ==  $(hostname -i) ]]; then
   redis-cli -h ${RFS_REDIS_SERVICE_HOST} -p ${RFS_REDIS_SERVICE_PORT_SENTINEL} SENTINEL failover mymaster
 fi`,