Cherry pick fix for gsutil into '17-7-stable'

What does this MR do?

Merge branch '2135-error-when-using-backup-utility-with-gitlab-17-5-4' into 'master'

Resolve "Error when using backup-utility with GitLab 17.5.4"

Closes #2135 (closed)

See merge request !2147 (merged)

Merged-by: Jason Plum jplum@gitlab.com Approved-by: Hossein Pursultani hpursultani@gitlab.com Co-authored-by: João Cunha j.a.cunha@gmail.com

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