Sqoop allows us to define saved jobs which make this process simple. A saved job records the configuration information required to execute a Sqoop command at a later time. sqoop-job tool describes how to create and work with saved jobs. Job descriptions are saved to a private repository stored in $HOME/.sqoop/.
We can configure Sqoop to instead use a shared metastore, which makes saved jobs offered to multiple users across a shared cluster. Starting the metastore is covered by the section on the sqoop-metastore tool.