Way back on rocket one of my first comments was 'affa --rise is god'. I have tested and used AFFA4 extensively since then and this is still true. The RPM affa-4.0-1 in SMETEST has one small issue that affa --rise does not use hardlinks. It will still RISE if you have sufficient disk space. An earlier version 4.0-1a does RISE using hardlinks. The difference between 4.0-1a and SMETEST 4.0-1 is 4.0-1 has line 3852 commented, replaced with line 3853. 4.0-1a uses "--link-dest=$archive$src",
3852 # "--link-dest=$archive$src",
3853 ( $linkDest ? "--link-dest='$job{'RootDir'}/$jobname/$linkDest'" : '' ),
There may be other issues with affa4, there are many variables, undo RISE fails, restore old archive works but not tested recently.
My use and testing AFFA4 now includes RISE of several production servers, and other various purposes, i.e. saving my bacon.
An important Include if using i.e. MariaDB105 is; Include=/var/opt/rh/rh-mariadb105/lib/mysql
My sincere thanks to the dev team... my other gods!