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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.

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.

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