I'm a +1 to doing this. The change to production is not too huge, so I
think it's low risk. As I've said elsewhere, I've used this technique
to do backups and analytics before to avoid putting load on production
and it worked well.
I personally think going without backups is a higher risk than the
changes to production. Maybe it's a lower chance of failure, but I say
higher risk because the consequence of not having backups when you need
them is greater than the consequence of needing to roll back the config
changes if something goes wrong.