Q: Is this really the only way to back up service settings?

Am I completely missing something here, or is Time Machine supposed to be the only easy way to back up service settings in Mountain Lion with Server.app? Is there really no way to export/import service settings anymore? It sounds to me from what I've read and seen of Server.app that if, for example, my DHCP settings get mucked up, I have to take the entire server offline, boot to the recovery partition, and restore from Time Machine? I can't just stop that ONE service and re-import the settings while leaving everything else up and running for 100+ users? Someone please tell me I'm missing something obvious.