Re: restoring broker node / zookeeper question

2014-01-12 Thread Jun Rao
In 0.8, Kafka broker can't be run w/o ZK. In 0.7, you can run a broker without ZK. However, you won't able to run the high level consumer w/o ZK. Thanks, Jun On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Ran RanUser wrote: > I have two questions: > > 1. > > We plan to initially run Kafka without partition

restoring broker node / zookeeper question

2014-01-11 Thread Ran RanUser
I have two questions: 1. We plan to initially run Kafka without partitioning or replication, simply having two single node Kafka (broker) servers in two geographically diverse locations. Using periodic backups/snapshots across locations for disaster recovery. Our producer / consumer application