diff --git a/contrib/dataimporthandler/CHANGES.txt b/contrib/dataimporthandler/CHANGES.txt
index c2a40d31931..4ab33653da1 100644
--- a/contrib/dataimporthandler/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/contrib/dataimporthandler/CHANGES.txt
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ Bug Fixes
 
 * SOLR-1766: DIH with threads enabled doesn't respond to the abort command (Michael Henson via noble)
 
+* SOLR-1767: dataimporter.functions.escapeSql() does not escape backslash character (Sean Timm via noble) 
+
 Other Changes
 ----------------------
 
diff --git a/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/main/java/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/EvaluatorBag.java b/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/main/java/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/EvaluatorBag.java
index dd59c049849..6e623f5eaee 100644
--- a/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/main/java/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/EvaluatorBag.java
+++ b/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/main/java/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/EvaluatorBag.java
@@ -72,7 +72,10 @@ public class EvaluatorBag {
           throw new DataImportHandlerException(SEVERE, "'escapeSql' must have at least one parameter ");
         }
         String s = l.get(0).toString();
-        return s.replaceAll("'", "''").replaceAll("\"", "\"\"");
+        // escape single quote with two single quotes, double quote
+        // with two doule quotes, and backslash with double backslash.
+        // See:  http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/mysql-real-escape-string.html
+        return s.replaceAll("'", "''").replaceAll("\"", "\"\"").replaceAll("\\\\", "\\\\\\\\");
       }
     };
   }
diff --git a/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/test/java/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/TestEvaluatorBag.java b/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/test/java/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/TestEvaluatorBag.java
index 902b8bd0268..98006c327b1 100644
--- a/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/test/java/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/TestEvaluatorBag.java
+++ b/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/test/java/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/TestEvaluatorBag.java
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ public class TestEvaluatorBag {
     sqlTests = new HashMap<String, String>();
 
     sqlTests.put("foo\"", "foo\"\"");
+    sqlTests.put("foo\\", "foo\\\\");
     sqlTests.put("foo'", "foo''");
     sqlTests.put("foo''", "foo''''");
     sqlTests.put("'foo\"", "''foo\"\"");