Restarting a data loading job after an error

If a bulk loading job encounters an error that causes it to shut down while in a Partially Written stage of the bulk loading process, you can use the -resume flag to restart the job at the point at which it stopped.

Allowable flags:

• -resume: Resume a bulk loading job from the point at which it failed.
• -resume -incremental_load: Resume an incremental load job from the point at which it failed.

Starting a job over from scratch

If a bulk loader job fails and you want to start over from scratch, you can use the -clear_existing_data flag.

Note

The -clear_existing_data and -resume flags are mutually exclusive and may not be used together.

See Spark job flags for a complete list of valid flags.