New Guy Question: Which came first ... the chicken or the checkpoint file?

Hello all...here's a question from a newbie ...

I'm attempting to configure my SSIS package to use a checkpoint file. I've checked the docs, and I believe I've set all the package properties for this ... except they are looking for the name of the checkpoint file. I've tried a couple of experiments such as c:\myCheckpoint.txt and c:\myCheckpoint.xml ... just for grins ... to see if SSIS would generate a checkpoint file for me at the start of the package ... no luck:

Message: Checkpoint file "C:\myCheckpoint.xml" failed to open due to error
0x80070002 "The system cannot find the file specified.".

From these runtime errors I've seen, it appears the checkpoint file should be an XML file that is created w/ specific nodes, etc. My question is ... how do I create the checkpoint file in advance so that when the package is executed it will find it and run?

SSIS ... pretty cool stuff!

Thanks!This is controlled by Package.CheckpointUsage property.
You probably have it set to 'Always' which causes package
to require the checkpoint file. You need to set it to 'IfExists' -
then the checkpoint file will be used if it exists.|||Yeah, that's what I figured too. The property options are Always, IfExists and Never. The doc doesn't specify that a file is created for you if you use Always, and on practical experimentation this didn't seem to help. Perhaps there's another property I missed; I did try to follow all the Package property settings that appeared to relate to checkpoints.

Thank you very much for trying!

DB|||The checkpoint is created automatically when the package fails (if it is configured to use checkpoints).

When you set CheckpointUsage=Always, you tell package that it has to start from previously saved checkpoint, i.e. the checkpoint file is expected to exist.

If you don't have checkpoint file yet, set CheckpointUsage=IfExists and run the package. It will run fine, and if it fails the package will create a checkpoint file. Next time when you run this package it will use that checkpoint.|||Thank you very, very much for your help! That makes sense!

Doug|||

Being another newbe, this post has been exceedingly helpful - I ran into the same issue!

Thanks! :-)