>>> standalone mode (No management involved, purely gateway)
How can you use a GW without Management ? It would just block all connections... StandAlone (GW + SMS on one appliance) for me is not a good deployment at all...
If you read https://support.checkpoint.com/results/sk/sk108902 you will find:
System Backup can be used to back up current system configuration. A backup creates a compressed file that contains the Check Point configuration. This file includes the networking and operating system parameters, such as routing and interface configuration etc., but unlike a Gaia snapshot, it does not include the operating system, product binaries, and hotfixes.
Note: A Gaia backup, unlike a Gaia snapshot, can be restored on the same or a different appliance running the same Check Point Gaia OS version and hotfixes.
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