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+csi_purpose: GNOME Infrastructure Backups facility
+csi_relationship: |
+    Provides rdiff-backup based backups to all the GNOME Infrastructure 
+    machines and services
+    - This machine mainly relies on the Red Hat sponsored NetApp assigned
+      to the GNOME Project where all the backups do reside