Content deployment in SharePoint 2013 is handled at the site collection level. New to SharePoint 2013, we must first activate the Content Deployment Source Feature. This new feature provides a report containing a list of features currently activated that are not supported by content deployment. In addition, this feature makes the site collection available in the list of site collections to use as the source when creating our content deployment connection in the Creating the content deployment path recipe.
For this recipe, we should have a source site collection and a target site collection created. They should both be created with the same site template, such as the Publishing Site template.