Thanks Yun! That's what I thought :) Best Lu
On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 7:57 PM Yun Tang <myas...@live.com> wrote: > Hi Lu > > Once a new checkpoint is completed when restoring from a savepoint, the > previous savepoint would be useless if you decide to restore from new > checkpoint. > In other words, new incremental checkpoint has no relationship with older > savepoint from which restored. > > Best > Yun Tang > ------------------------------ > *From:* Lu Niu <qqib...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Saturday, July 18, 2020 5:48 > *To:* user <user@flink.apache.org> > *Subject:* Are files in savepoint still needed after restoring if turning > on incremental checkpointing > > Hi, Flink Users > > Assuming one flink job turns incremental checkpointing and restores from a > savepoint. It runs fine for a while and commits one checkpoint and then it > fully restarts because of one error. At this time, is it possible that the > job still needs files in the original savepoint for recovery? If so, how to > determine whether a savepoint is safe to delete? > > Best > Lu >
