Hi, There's a specific page on the Flink documentation which explains the difference between checkpoints and savepoints at https://nightlies.apache.org/flink/flink-docs-stable/docs/ops/state/checkpoints_vs_savepoints/ - Have you read this? If so, what's missing so that we can improve the page?
Best regards, Martijn On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 9:55 AM Muzzammil Ameen (muameen) <muam...@cisco.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I would like to know the difference between externalized checkpoint and > savepoint. Regarding externalized checkpoint, is the checkpoint written to > persistent storage only if the job is failed or suspended? What about > cancelled or killed by the user? What information is written to persistent > storage when externalzed checkpoint is created? How is it different when > compared to savepoint? > > Consider this scenario, I have killed a flink job and would like to > restart the job while restoring previous state. I have both options – > restore from latest checkpoint and savepoint. Which should one choose for > job restore and why? > > > > > > > > Regards, > > Muzzammil Ameen > > muam...@cisco.com >
