Thanks - does that mean that the only way to safely back up Kafka is to have replication?
(I have done this partially - I can get the entire topic on the command line, after completely recreating the server, but my code that is intended to do the same thing just hangs) On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Rad Gruchalski <ra...@gruchalski.com> wrote: > John, > > I believe you mean something along the lines of: > http://markmail.org/message/f7xb5okr3ujkplk4 > I don’t think something like this has been done. > > > > > > > > > > > Best regards, > Radek Gruchalski > ra...@gruchalski.com (mailto:ra...@gruchalski.com) (mailto: > ra...@gruchalski.com) > de.linkedin.com/in/radgruchalski/ ( > http://de.linkedin.com/in/radgruchalski/) > > Confidentiality: > This communication is intended for the above-named person and may be > confidential and/or legally privileged. > If it has come to you in error you must take no action based on it, nor > must you copy or show it to anyone; please delete/destroy and inform the > sender immediately. > > > > On Wednesday, 4 May 2016 at 23:04, John Bickerstaff wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have what is probably an edge use case. I'd like to back up a single > > Kafka instance such that I can recreate a new server, drop Kafka in, drop > > the data in, start Kafka -- and have all my data ready to go again for > > consumers. > > > > Is such a thing done? Does anyone have any experience trying this? > > > > I have, and I've run into some problems which suggest there's a setting > or > > some other thing I'm unaware of... > > > > If you like, don't think of it as a backup problem so much as a "cloning" > > problem. I want to clone a new Kafka machine without actually cloning it > - > > I.E. the data is somewhere else (log and index files) although Zookeeper > is > > up and running just fine. > > > > Thanks > >
