Job creation overview

At a high-level, a job is created in four steps.

1. Establish a connection to the source server.
2. Establish a connection to the target server.
3. Create a workload. A workload identifies the volumes and directories on the source you want to protect.
4. Create a job passing in the workload created on the source.

This is a very basic overview of the job creation process. You may want or need to use additional steps. For example, if you are creating a full server to ESX job, you may need to install a vCenter certificate on the target. Another example is that you may want to configure and verify job options before you create the job, if you are not using default job options.

Once a job is created, you can use the API to get the status of the job and to manage it (such as start, stop, or failover). You can also add the target server to any Carbonite Availability or Carbonite Migrate Replication Console and see the status and manage the job from the console.