Sorry, I do not have any info on backup and recovery plan at this point of time. Please consider both cases (no backup AND back up)
On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 1:06 PM, Tauzell, Dave <dave.tauz...@surescripts.com > wrote: > What is the plan for backup and recovery of the kafka data? > > -Dave > > -----Original Message----- > From: Susheel Kumar [mailto:susheel2...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2016 12:00 PM > To: users@kafka.apache.org > Subject: Kafka as a database/repository question > > Hello Folks, > > I am going thru an existing design where Kafka is planned to be utilised > in below manner > > > 1. Messages will pushed to Kafka by producers > 2. There will be updates to existing messages on ongoing basis. The > expectation is that all the updates are consolidated in Kafka and the > latest and greatest version/copy is kept > 3. Consumers will read the messages from Kafka and push to Solr for > ingestion purposes > 4. There will be no purging/removal of messages since it is expected to > replay the messages in the future and perform full-re-ingestion. So > messages will be kept in Kafka for indefinite period similar to database > where data once stored remains there and can be used later in teh > future. > > > Do you see any pitfalls / any issue with this design especially wrt to > storing the messages indefinitely. > > > Thanks, > Susheel > This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential, may > contain sensitive information, and are intended solely for the use of the > individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this > e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply e-mail immediately and > destroy all copies of the e-mail and any attachments. >
