Hi Jatana, As you pointed out, the correct way to do the above is to use savepoints. If you kill your application, then this is not a crass but rather a voluntary action.
I am also looping in Max, as he may have something more to say on this. Cheers, Kostas On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 12:13 AM, Anchit Jatana < development.anc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I tried testing fault tolerance in a different way(not sure if it as > appropriate way) of my running flink application. I ran the flink > application on YARN and after completing few checkpoints, killed the YARN > application using: > > yarn application -kill application_1476277440022_xxxx > > Further, tried restarting the application by providing the same path of > the checkpointing directory. The application started afresh and did not > resume from the last check-pointed state. Just wanted to make sure if fault > tolerance in this usecase is valid or not. If yes, what am I doing wrong? > > I'm aware of the savepoint process- to create savepoint, stop the > application and resume new application from the same savepoint but wished > to check the above usecase considering the fact that for some reason if the > YARN application gets killed perhaps accidentally or due to any other > reason, is this kind of fault tolerance supported or not. > > > Regards, > Anchit >
