Which version of Kafka are you on? On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 4:54 PM John Bickerstaff <j...@johnbickerstaff.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > I've been working with Kafka a lot recently and have the log retention set > to over two years. > > Today, as I was trying some things I happened to have the log running in > another window and on two different VMs, Kafka decided to delete all my log > messages, thus losing the entire topic's worth of data - something that > takes a couple of hours to load. > > Can anyone tell me what might have affected this? I set the log retention > to a very big number in the server.properties file, but I'm unaware of > anything else that might affect this. > > What I observed is that this happened very soon after a reboot of Kafka > (under 5 minutes I think - certainly less than 10) and I watched it occur > on two boxes within half an hour of each other as I was restarting Kafka... >
