Yeah - it will increase IO and network utilization by a lot while data is replication, but it should be safe.
On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 4:56 PM, Dillian Murphey <crackshotm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is it safe to run this on an active production topic? A topic was created > without a replication factor of 2 and I want to increase it from 1 to 2 to > have fault tolerance. > > > http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#basic_ops_increase_replication_factor >