diff --git a/modules/module-list.nix b/modules/module-list.nix
index bf985fe58008..fb3bea3b84e7 100644
--- a/modules/module-list.nix
+++ b/modules/module-list.nix
@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@
   ./services/audio/alsa.nix
   ./services/audio/fuppes.nix
   ./services/audio/pulseaudio.nix
-  ./services/backup/hydra-mirror.nix
   ./services/backup/mysql-backup.nix
   ./services/backup/postgresql-backup.nix
   ./services/backup/sitecopy-backup.nix
diff --git a/modules/services/backup/hydra-mirror.nix b/modules/services/backup/hydra-mirror.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 3239f8a94325..000000000000
--- a/modules/services/backup/hydra-mirror.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,124 +0,0 @@
-{ config, pkgs, ... }:
-
-with pkgs.lib;
-
-let 
-
-  cfg = config.services.hydraChannelMirror;
-
-  mirrorChannel = pkgs.fetchsvn {
-    url = https://svn.nixos.org/repos/nix/release/trunk/channels/mirror-channel.pl;
-    rev = 25210;
-    sha256 = "0gspqid1rpsj1z1mr29nakh7di278nlv6v2knafvmm3g8ah3yxgz";
-  };
-
-  cronjob = jobset:
-    "${cfg.period} ${cfg.user}"
-    + optionalString cfg.enableBinaryPatches " ENABLE_PATCHES=1"
-    + " perl -I${config.environment.nix}/libexec/nix -I${pkgs.perlPackages.DBI}/lib/perl5/site_perl -I${pkgs.perlPackages.DBDSQLite}/lib/perl5/site_perl ${mirrorChannel}"
-    + " ${cfg.hydraURL}/jobset/${jobset.project}/${jobset.jobset}/channel/latest"
-    + " ${cfg.dataDir}/${jobset.project}/channels/${jobset.name}"
-    + " ${cfg.dataDir}/nars"
-    + " ${cfg.mirrorURL}/nars"
-    + " ${cfg.dataDir}/patches"
-    + " ${cfg.mirrorURL}/patches"
-    + " ${if jobset.nixexprs == "" then "" else "${cfg.hydraURL}/job/${jobset.project}/${jobset.jobset}/${jobset.nixexprs}/latest/download-by-type/file/source-dist"}"
-    + " >> ${cfg.dataDir}/logs/${jobset.name}.log 2>&1\n";
-
-in
-
-{
-  options = {
-  
-    services.hydraChannelMirror = {
-
-      enable = mkOption {
-        default = false;
-        description = ''
-          Whether to enable Hydra channel mirroring.
-        '';
-      };
-
-      period = mkOption {
-        default = "15 * * * *";
-        description = ''
-          This option defines (in the format used by cron) when the
-          mirroring should occur.
-        '';
-      };
-
-      user = mkOption {
-        default = "hydra-mirror";
-        description = ''
-          User running the Hydra mirror script.
-        '';
-      };
-
-      jobsets = mkOption {
-        default = [ { name = "nixpkgs-unstable"; project = "nixpkgs"; jobset = "trunk"; nixexprs = "tarball"; } ];
-        description = ''
-          List of jobsets to mirror.
-        '';
-      };
- 
-      hydraURL = mkOption {
-        default = "http://hydra.nixos.org";
-        description = ''
-          Location (URL) of Hydra instance
-        '';
-      };
-
-      mirrorURL = mkOption {
-        default = "http://nixos.org/releases";
-        description = ''
-          Location (URL) of Hydra mirror
-        '';
-      };
-
-      dataDir = mkOption {
-        default = "/data/hydra-mirror";
-        description = ''
-          Location of Hydra mirror data
-        '';
-      };
-
-      enableBinaryPatches = mkOption {
-        default = false;
-        description = ''
-          Whether to enable generating binary patches for the mirrored channels.
-        '';
-      };
-    };
-
-  };
-
-  config = mkIf cfg.enable {
-  
-    users.extraUsers = singleton
-      { name = cfg.user; description = "Hydra mirror"; };
-
-    services.cron.systemCronJobs = map cronjob cfg.jobsets;
-
-    system.activationScripts.hydraChannelMirror = stringAfter [ "stdio" "users" ]
-      ''
-        mkdir -m 0755 -p ${cfg.dataDir}
-        chown ${cfg.user} ${cfg.dataDir}
-
-        mkdir -m 0755 -p ${cfg.dataDir}/nars
-        chown ${cfg.user} ${cfg.dataDir}/nars
-
-        mkdir -m 0755 -p ${cfg.dataDir}/patches
-        chown ${cfg.user} ${cfg.dataDir}/patches
-
-        mkdir -m 0755 -p ${cfg.dataDir}/logs
-        chown ${cfg.user} ${cfg.dataDir}/logs
-
-        ${concatMapStrings (j : ''
-          mkdir -m 0755 -p ${cfg.dataDir}/${j.project}/channels/${j.name}
-          chown ${cfg.user} ${cfg.dataDir}/${j.project}/channels/${j.name}
-        '') cfg.jobsets}
-      '';
-    
-  };
-  
-}