diff --git a/roles/backup/templates/s3backup.sh b/roles/backup/templates/s3backup.sh
index 5c5a5de..f7e51a2 100644
--- a/roles/backup/templates/s3backup.sh
+++ b/roles/backup/templates/s3backup.sh
@@ -40,67 +40,52 @@ backup() {
 	# Takes a file or directory to backup and backs it up
 	[ -z "$*" ] && return 1
 
-	if command -v restic > /dev/null 2>&1; then
-		for dir in "$@"; do
-			echo "- $dir"
-		done
-		# First, we remove stale locks. This command will only remove locks that have not been
-		# updated in the last half hour. By default, restic updates them during an ongoing
-		# operation every 5 minutes, so this should be perfectly fine to do.
-		# What I'm not sure of (but should be fine because we auto-restart if need be) is if two
-		# processes doing this concurrently will cause issues. I'd hope not but you never know.
-		# restic-unlock(1)
-		/opt/restic-wrapper \
-			--verbose \
-			unlock
-		# Back up everything in the $DIRS array (which was passed as args)
-		# This results in some level of pollution with regard to what paths are backed up
-		# (especially on ostree systems where we do the etc diff) but that's syntactic and
-		# we can script around it.
-		/opt/restic-wrapper \
-			--verbose \
-	{% for item in backup_s3backup_exclude_list + backup_s3backup_exclude_list_extra %}
-			--exclude="{{ item }}" \
-	{% endfor %}
-			--exclude="/data/**/backup" \
-			--exclude="/data/**/backups" \
-			--exclude="*.bak" \
-			--exclude="*.tmp" \
-			--exclude="*.swp" \
-			backup \
-			"$@"
-		# In addition, we should also prune our backups
-		# https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/060_forget.html
-		# --keep-daily n	Keeps daily backups for the last n days
-		# --keep-weekly n	Keeps weekly backups for the last n weeks
-		# --keep-montly n	Keeps monthly backups for the last n months
-		# --keep-tag foo	Keeps all snapshots tagged with "foo"
-		# --host "$HOSTNAME"	Only act on *our* snapshots. We assume other machines are taking
-		#			care of their own houses.
-		# --prune		Remove orphaned blobs when we remove snapshots
-		/opt/restic-wrapper \
-			--verbose \
-			forget \
-			--keep-daily 7 \
-			--keep-weekly 4 \
-			--keep-monthly 6 \
-			--keep-tag noremove \
-			--host "$HOSTNAME" \
-			--prune
-	else
-		dir="$@"
+	for dir in "$@"; do
 		echo "- $dir"
-		nice -n 10 tar {{ backup_s3backup_tar_args }}{{ backup_s3backup_tar_args_extra }} \
-	{% for item in backup_s3backup_exclude_list + backup_s3backup_exclude_list_extra %}
-			--exclude "{{ item }}" \
-	{% endfor %}
-			"$dir" \
-			| aws s3 cp --expected-size 274877906944 - \
-{% if backup_s3_aws_endpoint_url is defined %}
-			--endpoint-url="{{ backup_s3_aws_endpoint_url }}" \
-{% endif %}
-			"s3://{{ backup_s3_bucket }}/$HOSTNAME/$dir/$(date "+{{ backup_dateformat }}").tar.gz"
-	fi
+	done
+	# First, we remove stale locks. This command will only remove locks that have not been
+	# updated in the last half hour. By default, restic updates them during an ongoing
+	# operation every 5 minutes, so this should be perfectly fine to do.
+	# What I'm not sure of (but should be fine because we auto-restart if need be) is if two
+	# processes doing this concurrently will cause issues. I'd hope not but you never know.
+	# restic-unlock(1)
+	/opt/restic-wrapper \
+		--verbose \
+		unlock
+	# Back up everything in the $DIRS array (which was passed as args)
+	# This results in some level of pollution with regard to what paths are backed up
+	# (especially on ostree systems where we do the etc diff) but that's syntactic and
+	# we can script around it.
+	/opt/restic-wrapper \
+		--verbose \
+{% for item in backup_s3backup_exclude_list + backup_s3backup_exclude_list_extra %}
+		--exclude="{{ item }}" \
+{% endfor %}
+		--exclude="/data/**/backup" \
+		--exclude="/data/**/backups" \
+		--exclude="*.bak" \
+		--exclude="*.tmp" \
+		--exclude="*.swp" \
+		backup \
+		"$@"
+	# In addition, we should also prune our backups
+	# https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/060_forget.html
+	# --keep-daily n	Keeps daily backups for the last n days
+	# --keep-weekly n	Keeps weekly backups for the last n weeks
+	# --keep-montly n	Keeps monthly backups for the last n months
+	# --keep-tag foo	Keeps all snapshots tagged with "foo"
+	# --host "$HOSTNAME"	Only act on *our* snapshots. We assume other machines are taking
+	#			care of their own houses.
+	# --prune		Remove orphaned blobs when we remove snapshots
+	/opt/restic-wrapper \
+		--verbose \
+		forget \
+		--keep-daily 7 \
+		--keep-weekly 4 \
+		--keep-monthly 6 \
+		--keep-tag noremove \
+		--host "$HOSTNAME" \
+		--prune
 }
 
 # Dump Postgres DBs, if possible
@@ -142,19 +127,5 @@ if [ -n "${DIRS[*]}" ]; then
 	echo "- {{ item }}"
 	{% endfor %}
 	echo "Will upload resultant backups to {{ backup_s3_bucket }}"
-	if command -v restic > /dev/null 2>&1; then
-		echo "Using restic for backups"
-		backup ${DIRS[*]}
-	else
-		echo "Using rudimentary tar and S3 for backups"
-		for dir in "${DIRS[@]}"; do
-			if [ "$dir" == "/data" ]; then
-				for datadir in "$dir"/*; do
-					[ -e "$datadir" ] && backup "$datadir"
-				done
-			else
-				backup "$dir"
-			fi
-		done
-	fi
+	backup ${DIRS[*]}
 fi