[FLINK-6784] Add some notes about externalized checkpoints and the difference to savepoints

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.3.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.3.0, 1.4.0
• Component/s: Documentation, Runtime / State Backends
• Assignee: Nico Kruber
• Reporter: Nico Kruber
• Created: 31/May/17 13:36
• Updated: 25/Jun/17 11:53
• Resolved: 25/Jun/17 11:53

Description

while externalized checkpoints are described somehow, there does not seem to be any paragraph explaining the difference to savepoints, also there are two checkpointing docs which could at least be linked somehow

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #4033