Hi, I have what is probably an edge use case. I'd like to back up a single Kafka instance such that I can recreate a new server, drop Kafka in, drop the data in, start Kafka -- and have all my data ready to go again for consumers.
Is such a thing done? Does anyone have any experience trying this? I have, and I've run into some problems which suggest there's a setting or some other thing I'm unaware of... If you like, don't think of it as a backup problem so much as a "cloning" problem. I want to clone a new Kafka machine without actually cloning it - I.E. the data is somewhere else (log and index files) although Zookeeper is up and running just fine. Thanks
