diff --git a/playbooks/remove-autorestic.yaml b/playbooks/remove-autorestic.yaml
index fc613e9..8545c2b 100644
--- a/playbooks/remove-autorestic.yaml
+++ b/playbooks/remove-autorestic.yaml
@@ -51,12 +51,13 @@ steps:
     sudo: true
 
   - name: Remove autorestic systemd unit files
-    shell: rm -f /etc/systemd/system/autorestic-backup.service \
-                 /etc/systemd/system/autorestic-backup.timer \
-                 /etc/systemd/system/autorestic-prune.service \
-                 /etc/systemd/system/autorestic-prune.timer
+    # Glob, not a list of explicit paths. A previous version used
+    # `rm -f path1 \` + newline + `path2`, which gets bitten by YAML
+    # plain-scalar folding: the backslash + newline collapses to a
+    # literal `\ ` and only the first path gets removed. The glob is
+    # also idempotent on hosts where the files are already gone.
+    shell: rm -f /etc/systemd/system/autorestic-*.service /etc/systemd/system/autorestic-*.timer
     sudo: true
-    removes: /etc/systemd/system/autorestic-backup.timer
 
   - name: systemctl daemon-reload (drop the removed units from systemd's view)
     shell: systemctl daemon-reload