Garry Bargsley shows how you can export configuration settings for your SQL Server instances:
Have you ever deleted a login by mistake from a hastily typed TSQL script or dropped a list of logins because the “Business” said they are not used anymore? Have you ever made a change to a SQL Server Agent job and then it failed on the next execution. What about that time you changed the Database Mail profile on all of your servers and left your personal account in the script instead of the DBA distribution list.
While each of these examples is not life-threatening, they will strike fear in you depending on how prepared you are to recover the items in question.
This is the type of thing you’d want to store in source control, too. That way, you have a record of changes over time.