A common solution for disaster recovery is to mirror the Kafka cluster into another one deployed in a separate data center. The mirroring is not synchronous so there might be some message loss when you lose the entire cluster in some disaster.
Thanks, Neha On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Guozhang Wang <wangg...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
