You can find more information in the patch of this jira:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-199

Thanks,

Jun

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Carey, Lynda
<lynda.ca...@six3systems.com>wrote:

> Hi!  I've been tasked with setting up a kafka cluster and mirroring.  I've
> set up a small cluster of just two machines.  I am running zookeeper, two
> brokers, 1 producer and 3 consumers.  Each consumer is in it's own group
> and all are reading from the same topic.  So, with this setup, I'm using
> simple console producer that reads from the command line and writes to
> kafka.  The consumer read the messages fine.
>
> Now, I need to set up a mirroring cluster.  I've read the wiki document
> about kafka mirroring and it leaves me a little confused.  I understand
> that the mirror cluster uses an embedded consumer to read from the source
> cluster and writes the messages to kafka on the mirrored cluster.  What's
> not clear to me is what else needs to be established on the mirrored
> cluster?  Do I only need one embedded consumer and producer on the mirror
> to get all the messages (regardless of topic/broker/etc)?  of do I need a
> pair of embedded consumer and producer for each topic?  What is reading the
> messages on the mirrored cluster? -- do I need to deploy the same consumers
> there as on the source cluster?  Is there any other documentation regarding?
>
> Any information you can give me would be awesome.  I'm just not getting it
> from the documentation alone.
>
> Thanks
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> Lynda Carey, Software Engineer
> Six3 Systems, Enterprise Systems Division
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