Have you tried the replication feature added to 0.8 http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#replication
/******************************************* Joe Stein Founder, Principal Consultant Big Data Open Source Security LLC http://www.stealth.ly Twitter: @allthingshadoop ********************************************/ On Nov 28, 2013, at 9:37 AM, Demian Berjman <dberj...@despegar.com> wrote: > Hi. > > Anyone has build a retry system (durable) for the producer in case the > kakfa cluster is down? We have certain messages that must be sent because > there are after a transaction that cannot be undo. > > We could set the property "message.send.max.retries", but if the producer > goes down, we lost the messages. > > Thanks,