As Jun described, the purpose of broker.id is to be able to move data from one broker to the other without changes. I believe this should work in 0.8 as well. However, we've never tried it so not sure if there are bugs. Let us know how it goes.
Thanks, Neha On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Jason Huang <jason.hu...@icare.com> wrote: > Thanks for the response. > > I apologize - I should have mentioned that we are trying out kafka 0.8 > because of its new exciting features. > > So for 0.8, what do I need to do with the zookeeper data? copy > zookeeper file from $dataDir in zookeeper.properties from server A to > server B, and then run server B's kafka instance? > > Jason > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Neha Narkhede <neha.narkh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Jason, > > > > Assuming this question is for 0.7, you can just copy the data in the log > > directory and restart the new broker. You don't need to copy the > zookeeper > > data. > > > > Thanks, > > Neha > > On Feb 27, 2013 2:11 AM, "Jason Huang" <jason.hu...@icare.com> wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> Is there a way to migrate kafka data from server A to another server B? > >> > >> Can I just copy the data from $log.dir in server.properties and > >> zookeeper file from $dataDir in zookeeper.properties from server A to > >> server B, and then run server B's kafka instance? > >> > >> thanks, > >> > >> Jason > >> >
