diff --git a/inventory/service/group_vars/translate.yaml b/inventory/service/group_vars/translate.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0f98162313
--- /dev/null
+++ b/inventory/service/group_vars/translate.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+borg_backup_excludes:
+  # backed up via streaming
+  - '/var/backups/mysql_backups*'
diff --git a/modules/openstack_project/manifests/translate.pp b/modules/openstack_project/manifests/translate.pp
index 030cb2c4fd..5a35ab76fb 100644
--- a/modules/openstack_project/manifests/translate.pp
+++ b/modules/openstack_project/manifests/translate.pp
@@ -130,6 +130,12 @@ class openstack_project::translate(
     require => Exec['register-zanata-projects'],
   }
 
+  # NOTE(ianw) 2021-02-05 : the --all-databases option to mysqldump
+  # this sets up appears to not be dumping all databases since a
+  # recent upgrade; see
+  #  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.7/+bug/1914695
+  # This effectively makes this dump useless.  Below we are streaming
+  # the database directly into borg, which does still work.
   mysql_backup::backup_remote { 'translate':
     database_host     => $mysql_host,
     database_user     => $mysql_user,
@@ -138,9 +144,21 @@ class openstack_project::translate(
     require           => Class['zanata'],
   }
 
-  include bup
-  bup::site { 'ord.rax':
-    backup_user   => 'bup-translate',
-    backup_server => 'backup01.ord.rax.ci.openstack.org',
+  # Streaming backup of zanata db; see borg-backup role
+  file { '/etc/borg-streams':
+    ensure  => directory,
+    owner   => 'root',
+    group   => 'root',
+    mode    => '0755',
   }
+
+  file { '/etc/borg-streams/mysql':
+    ensure  => file,
+    owner   => 'root',
+    group   => 'root',
+    mode    => '0755',
+    content => '/usr/bin/mysqldump --defaults-file=/root/.translate_db.cnf --ignore-table mysql.event --skip-extended-insert --single-transaction zanata',
+    require => File['/etc/borg-streams'],
+  }
+
 }