thanks Mayuresh and Jiangjie for your response. I have actually not understood Mirror maker clearly and hence bit skeptical if i will be able to execute it effectively.
Online i hv seen the following command to be execute, but not understood what is consumer-1 & -2.properties here? do i need to copy from my consumer code? also, any reason why to provide consumer property? bin/kafka-run-class.sh kafka.tools.MirrorMaker --consumer.config consumer-1.properties --consumer.config consumer-2.properties --producer.config producer.properties --whitelist my-topic Regards, Nitin Kumar Sharma. On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Mayuresh Gharat <gharatmayures...@gmail.com > wrote: > You can use the Mirror maker to move data from one data center to other and > once all the data has been moved you can shut down the source data center > by doing a controlled shutdown. > > Thanks, > > Mayuresh > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Jiangjie Qin <j...@linkedin.com.invalid> > wrote: > > > If you want to do a seamless migration. I think a better way is to build > a > > cross datacenter Kafka cluster temporarily. So the process is: > > 1. Add several new Kafka brokers in your new datacenter and add them to > > the old cluster. > > 2. Use replica assignment tool to reassign all the partitions to brokers > > in new datacenter. > > 3. Perform controlled shutdown on the brokers in old datacenter. > > > > Jiangjie (Becket) Qin > > > > On 3/25/15, 2:01 PM, "nitin sharma" <kumarsharma.ni...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > >Hi Team, > > > > > >in my project, we have built a new datacenter for Kafka brokers and > wants > > >to migrate from current datacenter to new one. > > > > > >Switching producers and consumers wont be a problem provided New > > >Datacenter > > >has all the messages of existing Datacenter. > > > > > > > > >i have only 1 topic with 2 partition that need to be migrated... that > too > > >it is only 1 time activity. > > > > > >Kindly suggest the best way to deal with this situation. > > > > > > > > >Regards, > > >Nitin Kumar Sharma. > > > > > > > -- > -Regards, > Mayuresh R. Gharat > (862) 250-7125 >
