Exception when restoring state from RocksDB - how to recover?

Posted by Josh on
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Hi all,

I just have a couple of questions about checkpointing and restoring state from RocksDB.

1) In some cases, I find that it is impossible to restore a job from a checkpoint, due to an exception such as the one pasted below[*]. In this case, it appears that the last checkpoint is somehow corrupt. Does anyone know why this might happen?

2) When the above happens, I have no choice but to cancel the job, as it repeatedly attempts to restart and keeps getting the same exception. Given that no savepoint was taken recently, is it possible for me to restore the job from an older checkpoint (e.g. the second-last checkpoint)?

The version of Flink I'm using Flink-1.1-SNAPSHOT, from mid-June. 

Thanks,

Josh

[*]The exception when restoring state:

java.lang.Exception: Could not restore checkpointed state to operators and functions
	at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.restoreState(StreamTask.java:480)
	at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.invoke(StreamTask.java:219)
	at org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.Task.run(Task.java:588)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Error while restoring RocksDB state from /mnt/yarn/usercache/hadoop/appcache/application_1476181294189_0001/flink-io-09ad1cb1-8dff-4f9a-9f61-6cae27ee6f1d/d236820a793043bd63360df6f175cae9/StreamFlatMap_9_8/dummy_state/dc5beab1-68fb-48b3-b3d6-272497d15a09/chk-1
	at org.apache.flink.contrib.streaming.state.RocksDBStateBackend.restoreFromSemiAsyncSnapshot(RocksDBStateBackend.java:537)
	at org.apache.flink.contrib.streaming.state.RocksDBStateBackend.injectKeyValueStateSnapshots(RocksDBStateBackend.java:489)
	at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.AbstractStreamOperator.restoreState(AbstractStreamOperator.java:204)
	at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.AbstractUdfStreamOperator.restoreState(AbstractUdfStreamOperator.java:154)
	at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.restoreState(StreamTask.java:472)
	... 3 more
Caused by: org.rocksdb.RocksDBException: NotFound: Backup not found
	at org.rocksdb.BackupEngine.restoreDbFromLatestBackup(Native Method)
	at org.rocksdb.BackupEngine.restoreDbFromLatestBackup(BackupEngine.java:177)
	at org.apache.flink.contrib.streaming.state.RocksDBStateBackend.restoreFromSemiAsyncSnapshot(RocksDBStateBackend.java:535)
	... 7 more