diff --git a/mayan/apps/sources/setting_migrations.py b/mayan/apps/sources/setting_migrations.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ee99216a14
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mayan/apps/sources/setting_migrations.py
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+from mayan.apps.common.serialization import yaml_load
+from mayan.apps.smart_settings.classes import NamespaceMigration
+
+
+class SourcesSettingMigration(NamespaceMigration):
+    """
+    From version 0001 to 0002 backend arguments are no longer quoted
+    but YAML valid too. Changed in version 3.3.
+    """
+    def sources_staging_file_cache_storage_backend_arguments(self, value):
+        return yaml_load(
+            stream=value or '{}',
+        )
diff --git a/mayan/apps/sources/settings.py b/mayan/apps/sources/settings.py
index aef20ad07d..c4079dc6dc 100644
--- a/mayan/apps/sources/settings.py
+++ b/mayan/apps/sources/settings.py
@@ -7,7 +7,12 @@ from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
 
 from mayan.apps.smart_settings.classes import Namespace
 
-namespace = Namespace(label=_('Sources'), name='sources')
+from .setting_migrations import SourcesSettingMigration
+
+namespace = Namespace(
+    label=_('Sources'), migration_class=SourcesSettingMigration,
+    name='sources', version='0002'
+)
 
 setting_scanimage_path = namespace.add_setting(
     global_name='SOURCES_SCANIMAGE_PATH', default='/usr/bin/scanimage',