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Not really. That's actually one of my favorite "health check" questions: when was the last time you restored?

Most places have very reliable backup procedures. Most of those have very poor restore procedures - I'd say about half fail when put to the test.

Running a restore is also a very effective way to discover that your backup procedure wasn't actually very reliable after all.

To me that is like saying "You can put money on your bank account but you should make sure you get it back". Of course you have to test your backups.

If you think this post is about linguistics, you're missing the point

Since the restore is the important thing, that's the one you have to test. And if you haven't tested restoring, your backup is (quite possibly) worthless.

It's a well duh, but still most people fail to test restore. This may be the greatest thing about distributed version control. Every clone is a restore. A limited restore but still a restore.