diff --git a/.etckeeper b/.etckeeper
index adf8be69..ceff41de 100755
--- a/.etckeeper
+++ b/.etckeeper
@@ -297,6 +297,7 @@ maybe chmod 0755 'apt/preferences.d'
 maybe chmod 0644 'apt/preferences.d/limit-unstable'
 maybe chmod 0644 'apt/sources.list'
 maybe chmod 0755 'apt/sources.list.d'
+maybe chmod 0644 'apt/sources.list.d/backports.list'
 maybe chmod 0644 'apt/sources.list.d/my.list'
 maybe chmod 0644 'apt/sources.list.d/raspi.list'
 maybe chmod 0644 'apt/sources.list.d/unstable.list'
diff --git a/apt/sources.list.d/backports.list b/apt/sources.list.d/backports.list
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..68d5e8be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apt/sources.list.d/backports.list
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main