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Backfilling

Invoking a video generator backill is completely optional.

A few scenarios where you may want to do this include the following:

  • A set of robologs were was ingested before you defined a video generator. You may backfill these robologs to generate videos for them.
  • A normfill invocation failed generate video(s) due to a misconfiguration of the video generator's outputs.

Note: A successful backfill invocation will result in an overwrite of existing video outputs generated by previous invocations of a given video generator that used the same robolog and output names.

Backfill a set of robologs

You may create a backfill invocation from either the video generator dashboard or from a video generator's details page.

  1. Click "Backfill".
  2. Select the video generator you want to use for backfill from the dropdown; the latest tested version is selected by default, but you may choose a different version as long as it has been tested.
  3. Use the provided search UI to find the robologs you want to backfill.
  4. Click "+ Add" next to a given robolog to add it to the backfill set.
  5. Click "Run backfill".

Viewing results

As with all other invocation types, you may access the status and results of a video generator backfill invocation from the invocations list in a video generator's details page.