diff --git a/testing/etcd/APKBUILD b/testing/etcd/APKBUILD
index 954f1829ec8..8bc2f5ef9c2 100644
--- a/testing/etcd/APKBUILD
+++ b/testing/etcd/APKBUILD
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Maintainer: Francesco Colista <fcolista@alpinelinux.org>
 pkgname=etcd
 pkgver=3.4.10
-pkgrel=2
+pkgrel=3
 pkgdesc="A highly-available key value store for shared configuration and service discovery"
 options="chmod-clean"
 url="https://github.com/coreos/etcd"
@@ -58,4 +58,4 @@ ctl() {
 sha512sums="104bfce77778df4704caafc45b731bb440060be1d802a42642f33cc6c2ad11b7f94c237c1b8a47c38d1e109b71b31cc6cd8a666796fe2dbc925722fee1c2c4da  etcd-3.4.10.tar.gz
 86f726d77a3fbe87908c5a5b6e3c5b81f0b428de05a211fd1ea82058285c1a64898ca8a79ef8458db5ed5fd53d72e3a457eb55c0c297981363edf60d2d28b4af  etcd.yaml-3.4.10
 8b917d2b3a136a97dd9565a91377420ce1f812bfb10bb0caa95f1024dd366cb78ebb0539f16ddfbc399325d41a6664b856d49c5c9aa67bc27e36040f2227356e  etcd.confd
-21b00ca071417287ea6d4a14591145edae375c12f22dbab61749883bb304023a7e580dd6925ecebe115c91d257eddd29d294ed6ab9bff79cde94c30cb3dcd78e  etcd.initd"
+b67f7fd209a29ed2a6ef86d5a3c07cf5dc4138af7c61c3a928471cd79f5579ce7861fd21167db332727dfb2a8e554722366c6505e447f3b2feeae819f869aa11  etcd.initd"
diff --git a/testing/etcd/etcd.initd b/testing/etcd/etcd.initd
index ae3b3e269aa..3ef09782f86 100644
--- a/testing/etcd/etcd.initd
+++ b/testing/etcd/etcd.initd
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ supervisor=supervise-daemon
 name="$RC_SVCNAME"
 description="Highly-available key-value store"
 
-ETCD_DATA_DIR=$(sed -n 's/^data-dir:./\1/p' $ETCD_CONFIG_FILE)
+ETCD_DATA_DIR=$(sed -nr 's/^data-dir:\s*(\/.*)/\1/p' $ETCD_CONFIG_FILE)
 
 command=/usr/bin/etcd
 command_args="--config-file=${ETCD_CONFIG_FILE}"