Yingkai, Kafka uses persistent storage so the data written to it will not be lost, you just need to restart the cluster. But during the down time it will become un-available.
Guozhang On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Yingkai Hu <yingka...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I’m new to Kafka, please direct me to the right path if it is a duplicate > question. > > Basically I deployed Kafka to a 4 machine cluster, what if the whole > cluster went down, does kafka provide any backup/restore mechanism? Please > advise. > > Thanks! > Yingkai -- -- Guozhang
