Exporting server admin and service preferences for backup

I have never used this feature and would like to know if there is any problem using these exported files to reinstall the server admin and service preferences?
.............Thanks in advance for any thoughts....Ray

AFAIK, yes.
Best answer: try it yourself.
Testing your own full recovery path is a Good Thing.
I tend to use the export and import knobs when I'm going to go mess with stuff in a test configuration, and I want a path back and a way to restore the previous settings. (Though because the services can be reconfigured and modify files elsewhere on the disk and entirely dependent on what I'm testing in SA, this isn't necessarily a good global solution. Which gets back to recovery testing. And occasional full disk backups with Disk Utility or analogous.)

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