Yes, indeed; Restic just happened to be an easy-to-use deduplicating backup program that supports various cloud storage backends, including the one I happen to

Yes, indeed; Restic just happened to be an easy-to-use deduplicating backup program that supports various cloud storage backends, including the one I happen to use (Backblaze). Not needing to patch together some sort of pipeline of dedup --> upload to remote storage is a nice selling point.