diff --git a/phpBB/install/database_update.php b/phpBB/install/database_update.php
index 5a2287c9e1..80fd40a944 100644
--- a/phpBB/install/database_update.php
+++ b/phpBB/install/database_update.php
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ define('IN_DB_UPDATE', true);
 // End startup code
 
 $migrator = $phpbb_container->get('migrator');
-$migrator->set_output_handler(new \phpbb\db\html_migrator_output_handler($user));
+$migrator->set_output_handler(new \phpbb\db\log_wrapper_migrator_output_handler($user, new \phpbb\db\html_migrator_output_handler($user), $phpbb_root_path . 'store/migrations_' . time() . '.log'));
 
 $migrator->create_migrations_table();
 
diff --git a/phpBB/phpbb/db/log_wrapper_migrator_output_handler.php b/phpBB/phpbb/db/log_wrapper_migrator_output_handler.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e81dfd7a62
--- /dev/null
+++ b/phpBB/phpbb/db/log_wrapper_migrator_output_handler.php
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+<?php
+/**
+*
+* This file is part of the phpBB Forum Software package.
+*
+* @copyright (c) phpBB Limited <https://www.phpbb.com>
+* @license GNU General Public License, version 2 (GPL-2.0)
+*
+* For full copyright and license information, please see
+* the docs/CREDITS.txt file.
+*
+*/
+
+namespace phpbb\db;
+
+use phpbb\user;
+
+class log_wrapper_migrator_output_handler implements migrator_output_handler_interface
+{
+	/**
+	 * User object.
+	 *
+	 * @var user
+	 */
+	protected $user;
+
+	/**
+	 * HTML migrator output handler
+	 *
+	 * @var html_migrator_output_handler
+	 */
+	protected $html_migrator;
+
+	/**
+	 * Log file handle
+	 * @var resource
+	 */
+	protected $file_handle = false;
+
+	/**
+	 * Constructor
+	 *
+	 * @param user $user	User object
+	 * @param html_migrator_output_handler $html_migrator HTML migrator output handler
+	 * @param string $log_file	File to log to
+	 */
+	public function __construct(user $user, html_migrator_output_handler $html_migrator, $log_file)
+	{
+		$this->user = $user;
+		$this->html_migrator = $html_migrator;
+		$this->file_open($log_file);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Open file for logging
+	 *
+	 * @param string $file File to open
+	 */
+	protected function file_open($file)
+	{
+		if (phpbb_is_writable(dirname($file)))
+		{
+			$this->file_handle = fopen($file, 'w');
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			throw new \RuntimeException('Unable to write to migrator log file');
+		}
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * {@inheritdoc}
+	 */
+	public function write($message, $verbosity)
+	{
+		$this->html_migrator->write($message, $verbosity);
+
+		if ($this->file_handle !== false)
+		{
+			$translated_message = call_user_func_array(array($this->user, 'lang'), $message) . "\n";
+
+			if ($verbosity <= migrator_output_handler_interface::VERBOSITY_NORMAL)
+			{
+				$translated_message = '[INFO] ' . $translated_message;
+			}
+			else
+			{
+				$translated_message = '[DEBUG] ' . $translated_message;
+			}
+
+			fwrite($this->file_handle, $translated_message);
+			fflush($this->file_handle);
+		}
+	}
+}