Re: it's so easy
It's taking a bit longer to restore because they've just discovered the backups have been broken for the last year.
Which is why, if the data is important at all, you do fairly frequent test restores.
Depending on your flavour of database it may even support some sort of validate without acually having to restore, in which case you do frequent validations (and still the occasional actual real restore to ensure it really can be restored).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
