Please critique my backup practices

To do a backup, I pop a drive out of a shadowset, back it up and put
it back.

The problem is, I don't record the backup dates.

I have a incremental that runs every night that does record backup
dates.

If I had to restore, I would apply the last image and all the
incrementals after it. But I guess I would get some extra files.

This is easy, I never have to shutdown, but what are the gotchas?

Note that if I am *planning* to do a restore I don't use incrementals,
I just use a fresh image backup.

I have never had to do an emergency image restore using incrementals.
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