Re: Externalized Checkpoints vs Periodic Checkpoints

2017-02-02 Thread Till Rohrmann
Hi Yassine, a periodic checkpoint is checkpoint which will be triggered periodically by Flink. The checkpoint itself can have multiple properties and one of them is whether the checkpoint is externalized or not. An externalized checkpoint is a checkpoint for which Flink writes the meta informatio

Re: Externalized Checkpoints vs Periodic Checkpoints

2017-02-02 Thread Yassine MARZOUGUI
Thank you Till for the clarification, that was helpful. Best, Yassine 2017-02-02 15:31 GMT+01:00 Till Rohrmann : > Hi Yassine, > > a periodic checkpoint is checkpoint which will be triggered periodically > by Flink. The checkpoint itself can have multiple properties and one of > them is whether

Externalized Checkpoints vs Periodic Checkpoints

2017-02-01 Thread Yassine MARZOUGUI
Hi all, Could someone clarify the difference between externalized checkpoints[1] and regular periodic checkpoints[2]? Moreover, I have a question regarding the retention of checkpoints: For regular checkpoints, does the last checkpoint discard the previous ones? If yes, is that the case too for th