I think the more automated/lazy way right now would be to shutdown one
broker, rm -rf all its data, add the data directories in config, and
restart to let the broker restore off the replicas. This may actually be
okay though it is a little slower.

-Jay

On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Jun Rao <jun...@gmail.com> wrote:

> You can stop the broker and copy some of the log directories to the new
> volumes. You have to be a bit careful when you do that. There are two
> metadata files recovery-point-offset-checkpoint and
> replication-offset-checkpoint that you have to manually split and copy
> over.
>
> Ideally, we should be able to do this automatically. Perhaps when a broker
> starts up, if a "storage.rebalancing" option is enabled, the broker can
> automatically copy some of the log dirs around to balance the load among
> the different volumes. Could you file a jira to track this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jun
>
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 7:02 AM, Steve Morin <st...@stevemorin.com> wrote:
>
> > Neha,
> >  I log volume or can it be volumes plural?
> > -Steve
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Neha Narkhede <neha.narkh...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Is it possible to perform this migration without losing the data
> > currently
> > > stored in the kafka cluster?
> > >
> > > Though I haven't tested this, the way this is designed should allow you
> > to
> > > shut down a broker, move some partition directories over to the new log
> > > volume and restart the broker. You will have to do this manually per
> > broker
> > > though.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Neha
> > >
> > > On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:31 AM, Javier Alba <m...@fjavieralba.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I have a Kafka 0.8.1.1 cluster consisting in 4 servers with several
> > > topics
> > > > on it.
> > > >
> > > > The cluster was initially configured to store kafka log data in a
> > single
> > > > directory on each server (log.dirs = /tmp/kafka-logs)
> > > >
> > > > Now, I have assigned 3 new disks to each server and I would like to
> use
> > > > them to store log data, instead the old directory. (logs.dirs =
> > > > /srv/data/1,/srv/data/2,/srv/data/3)
> > > >
> > > > What would be the recommended way of doing such a migration?
> > > >
> > > > Is it possible to perform this migration without losing the data
> > > currently
> > > > stored in the kafka cluster?
> > > >
> > > > Would it be possible to achieve that kind of change without having to
> > > stop
> > > > the cluster and losing service?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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