No, currently there is no way to rebuild the ZK data from the broker. You will need to backup ZK data too.
Thanks, Jun On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Ran RanUser <ranuse...@gmail.com> wrote: > Running isolated primary, secondary, etc, Kafka brokers without replication > (clients failover to other Kafka brokers if needed). Each broker instance > has a single local Zookeeper instance. > > Using periodic backups/snapshots of topic data across locations for > disaster recovery. > > It appears without the Zookeeper data, we will be unable to restore a Kafka > broker to another server even through we have all its topic data and logs. > Is there a way for Zookeeper to auto bootstrap the topic data and high > watermark ? What is the procedure? We are strictly using simple consumer. > > > Thank you! >