Guide to Content Deployment in SharePoint 2010

The purpose of this guide is to show how to create a content deployment job in SharePoint 2010.
Content deployment refers to the process of copying content from a source site collection to a destination site collection. These site collections should be in different web applications (or different farms).
For this tutorial I have created two web applications:

For the Source site collection you can create a site collection with any template you need. For the Destination site collection create the site collection, but choose “< Select template later… >”:

You can find all the settings pages related to content deployment in the Central Administration, in the General Application Settings tab, in the Content Deployment section:

Now, having everyting prepared, let’s start the real work:

1. Setup content deployment: go to Configure content deployment and allow incoming content deployment jobs
   
   Please note that in my test environment i have also selected Do not require encryption. You should always use encryption in production environments.
2. Create a content deployment path: go to Configure content deployment paths and jobs
   
3. Create the content deployment job:
   
4. Configure the newly created job:
   
5. Run the deployment job:
   
6. After you run the job, on the same page you can view the status of the job:
   
7. When the job is complete, you can review the job report: