All those rushing in the criticise, how confident are you in you processes?
You're right, although I'm old school - where I come from, backups aren't as important as restores, so a backup wasn't until you could prove you could actually use it to recover.
That said, the first ever from-the-metal-upwards restore test I did was the single most nerve-wracking thing I've done in my career, despite the fact that I had two separate backups and a hot standby site to take over if recovery took more time than the available test window.
That said, you haven't earned your sysadmin badge if you haven't learned the "rm -rf" lesson the hard way...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
