Since 0.8 has backward incompatible protocol definition with 0.7, to mirror data between such two DCs you need to use this data migration tool:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Migrating+from+0.7+to+0.8 Moving forward from 0.8 you should be able to use a MM to mirror between different DCs with different 0.8.x versions. Guozhang On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Wei Yan <ywsk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, guys, > > Want to confirm whether the mirrormaker supports different versions of > kafka. For example, if DC1 uses Kafka-0.8 and DC2 uses Kafka-0.7, does DC1 > can mirrormake DC2’s messages? It looks this cannot work in my local test. > > If not work, is there any candidate ways for replicating msgs among > different data centers running different version kafka? > > thanks, > > Wei > -- -- Guozhang
