Couldn't agree more with the sentiments of the group. And I also can't say we aren't guilty either.
While we back everything up, we aren't so good with testing the restores. We have done restores, but never in a true DR test sense. And those we've done have all been outside the Solarwinds realm.
As for restore from NCM, I truly think it would be faster to just use the backup config files on the NCM server and load them manually into the device.