Well I guess you knew about the export_tool since you brought it up. But basically you look on your checkpoint cd
D:\windows
Grab all the files in the root of this directory -
568 checkpoint_ca_cert.cer
65,631 cpwget.exe
456,192 cygwin1.dll
124,928 gtar.exe
18,335 gtar-Copying.txt
48,640 gzip.exe
18,321 gzip-Copying.txt
7,548 Inspect.C
401,462 MSVCP60.DLL
278,581 MSVCRT.DLL
479,361 pre_upgrade_verifier.exe
1,770 TRANS.TBL
41,088 updates_download_helper.exe
90,231 upgrade_export.exe
856,183 upgrade_import.exe
872,567 verify_package.exe These are all the files you need and as you can see there is a command line exe called
upgrade_export.exe. How you use it:
http://www.checkpoint.com/techsuppor...and_Import.pdf If you want to backup your file config etc including the users and rule base then yes run it on the management server.
Anything that you do on a command line can be scripted - in basic terms. There are plenty of forums on scripting an batch files. Once your comfortable doing the above manually then try and script it.