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See https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/software/wmfbackups/+/819109 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274463
This may be reworked on a later patch, but keeping it here for reference- probably the same patch will be completed and recontextualized at a later time. CC @jelto