If you add more brokers to an existing cluster, you can use the partition reassignment admin tool to move a replica of selected partitions over to the new broker.
Thanks, Neha On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Jason Rosenberg <j...@squareup.com> wrote: > It looks like by default, the first time a new message arrives for a given > topic, it will receive the default replication factor in place on the > broker at the time it is first received. > > Is it possible to change this later (e.g. say if we add more hardware to > the cluster at a later date, etc.)? > > Thanks, > > Jason >