diff --git a/pkgs/misc/sane-backends/default.nix b/pkgs/misc/sane-backends/default.nix
index dcd7a71fa32..e3c9d2bbe3f 100644
--- a/pkgs/misc/sane-backends/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/misc/sane-backends/default.nix
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   name = "sane-backends-1.0.16";
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = ftp://ftp3.sane-project.org/pub/sane/sane-backends-1.0.16/sane-backends-1.0.16.tar.gz;
+    url = ftp://ftp3.sane-project.org/pub/sane/old-versions/sane-backends-1.0.16/sane-backends-1.0.16.tar.gz;
     md5 = "bec9b9262246316b4ebfe2bc7451aa28";
   };
 }