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Someone will be able to help you there, usually within a few hours! Marta On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 2:44 PM Marcus Horsley-Rai <marc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am working on a project that has to be resilient and highly available, > and would like to be able to deploy a Flink/Kafka setup as active/active > across two data centres (Live/Hot backup in a sense). > I came across an old forum post asking how failover could be performed if > one datacenter goes down, and the answer was to try and automate a solution > involving savepoints. > > In my case, there would be independent Kafka clusters in each data centre, > but input data would be mirrored to both. > > The documentation mentions that Flink saves the Kafka consumer offsets as > part of the checkpoint/savepoint, and resumes from those offsets on a > restore. > If I has a solution involving syncing checkpoints between DCs, what > would be the behaviour given the offsets of Flink in DC1 will not marry up > exactly with those in DC2? > e.g. will it just pick up from latest? > > Many thanks in advance, > > Marcus >
