diff --git a/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/DBSQL/BaseAdaptor.pm b/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/DBSQL/BaseAdaptor.pm
index 26408741883ce8464bc6bc48f83d1f791aa1dbad..74c938e82a7ac6e28a6a06d93c1c358e3eb8eaf8 100755
--- a/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/DBSQL/BaseAdaptor.pm
+++ b/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/DBSQL/BaseAdaptor.pm
@@ -1109,7 +1109,7 @@ sub get_dumped_data {
     my $self = shift;
     my $data = shift;
 
-    $data =~ s/\n|\r|\f|\\//g;
+    $data =~ s/\n|\r|\f|(\\\\)//g;
     return eval ($data); ## no critic
 }