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At the moment, backfills can’t be stopped, once started. This is due to data integrity issues, according to the support.

 

However, there are some cases, where a backfill might be cancelled without issues for data integrity.

 

E.g. if I added metric A to a table, started a backfill and immediately noticed I need to include metric B as well. In this case I would anyhow start a new backfill and data integrity is no issue. However, at the moment I need to wait for the backfill with metric A to be completed which is time consuming for me and somehow expensive for you.

Hi ​@tibormartini 

Thank you for submitting this idea!

We completely understand how frustrating it is to waste time and resources waiting for a large backfill to finish when you already know you need to restart it with new fields. Your specific use case—where the new backfill will overwrite the old data anyway—makes a lot of sense.

We have accepted this request as relevant and officially added it to the product backlog for the Data Warehouse team to review the feasibility of adding a Cancel/Restart option.

Thanks for your excellent input! 😇

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