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I don't blame you, although I can attest we do full restores with it all the time when we upgrade to larger disks, as well as testing our critical application and database server restores to the spare hardware we keep just for that purpose. We also use it to backup our VMware Virtual Machines since there can be SCSI conflicts if you try local tape backups of all the individual VM's.

Just test it on a VM, or a workstation, or next time you want to upgrade some of your hard disks on one of your servers, as you could always go back to the old disks if you had trouble. You could also test their bare metal boot up disk without actually doing a restore, it fits on either 7 floppies or 1 CD if you have a CD-R drive in the computer you're backing up, so it can get the necessary drivers. Then when the users are gone for the day or weekend boot it up and verify you can at least see your backup devices and/or your network.

If it works anywhere near as good for you as it does for us, you'll be sleeping better than you have in a long while.