1. A computerized device comprising: a memory; a processor; a communications interface; an interconnection mechanism coupling the memory, the processor and the communications interface; wherein the memory is encoded with a network management data recovering application that when executed on the processor is capable of recovering network management data on the computerized device by performing the operations of: detecting an event suggesting a data discrepancy between a staging database and a production database that maintain network management data within a network management system, the staging database logically separate from the production database; preventing modification to the production database; replacing data in the staging database with data from the production database; and allowing modification to the production database.