diff --git a/dbms/src/Storages/Distributed/DirectoryMonitor.cpp b/dbms/src/Storages/Distributed/DirectoryMonitor.cpp
index 00129757591..a9b51aebdd4 100644
--- a/dbms/src/Storages/Distributed/DirectoryMonitor.cpp
+++ b/dbms/src/Storages/Distributed/DirectoryMonitor.cpp
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 #include <Common/StringUtils/StringUtils.h>
 #include <Common/ClickHouseRevision.h>
 #include <Common/SipHash.h>
+#include <Common/quoteString.h>
 #include <Interpreters/Context.h>
 #include <Storages/Distributed/DirectoryMonitor.h>
 #include <IO/ReadBufferFromFile.h>
@@ -360,7 +361,7 @@ struct StorageDistributedDirectoryMonitor::Batch
             String tmp_file{parent.current_batch_file_path + ".tmp"};
 
             if (Poco::File{tmp_file}.exists())
-                LOG_ERROR(parent.log, "Temporary file `" << tmp_file << "` exists. Unclean shutdown?");
+                LOG_ERROR(parent.log, "Temporary file " << backQuote(tmp_file) << " exists. Unclean shutdown?");
 
             {
                 WriteBufferFromFile out{tmp_file, O_WRONLY | O_TRUNC | O_CREAT};