How to rollback after openscap remediation

Question

What is the best practice to rollback after a openscap remediate that made the system unstable other than to restore a system backup

Answer 1

Unfortunately there is no automated way of reverting the changes done by the remediation. You would need to understand what the remediation does and revert it manually.

The only safe/easy way is to backup the system files prior applying the remediation, as you already said.