We don't have an exact tool for doing this. You may be able to do that through http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#basic_ops_increase_replication_factorby specifying fewer replicas.
Thanks, Jun On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 1:23 AM, David Birdsong <david.birds...@gmail.com>wrote: > Is there a way to reduce the replication count? I'm trying to spread > existing partitions across more brokers, but it's hard to decomm a broker. > Reducing repl count would suffice for now. > > Any tips? > > I'm running a mix of 0.8.1.1 and 0.8.1 (I'm upgrading now.) >