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Subject: Re: Delete save point when using incremental checkpoint
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From: Chesnay Schepler <chesnay@apache.org>
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Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 10:54:45 +0200
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Hi,

There is an important distinction between checkpoints (triggered by 
Flink, may be incremental) and savepoints (manually triggered, always 
self-contained).

Your question is unfortunately mixing both terms, please expand which 
you're referring to.

Regards,
Chesnay

On 11.10.2017 10:31, Kien Truong wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When using increment checkpoint mode, can I delete the save point that 
> the job recovered from after sometime ? Or do I have to keep that 
> checkpoint forever because it's a part of the snapshot chain ?
>
> Best regards,
> Kien