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Published inDec 2017
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Raúl Estrada has been a programmer since 1996 and a Java developer since 2001. He loves all topics related to computer science. With more than 15 years of experience in high-availability and enterprise software, he has been designing and implementing architectures since 2003. His specialization is in systems integration, and he mainly participates in projects related to the financial sector. He has been an enterprise architect for BEA Systems and Oracle Inc., but he also enjoys web, mobile, and game programming. Raúl is a supporter of free software and enjoys experimenting with new technologies, frameworks, languages, and methods. Raúl is the author of other Packt Publishing titles, such as Fast Data Processing Systems with SMACK and Apache Kafka Cookbook.
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Importing ZooKeeper offsets


Now we have a backup of the offsets contained in ZooKeeper at some point in time, one can restore them. This tool is handy for restoring the status of the offsets to the point when they were taken.

Getting ready

For this recipe, Kafka must be installed, ZooKeeper running, broker running, and some topics created on it. The topics should have produced some messages and have some consumers created. A file with the ZooKeeper offset previously exported is needed.

How to do it...

Let's assume that we have our offset status in the file, /temp/zkoffset.txt.

From the Kafka installation directory, run the following command:

$ bin/kafka-run-class.sh kafka.tools.ImportZkOffsets --inputfile /tmp/zkoffset.txt --zkconnect localhost:2181

How it works...

The preceding command takes the following arguments:

  • --zkconnect: This specifies the ZooKeeper connect string. It is a comma-separated list in the host:port format.
  • --input-file: This specifies the file to import ZooKeeper offsets from...
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Raúl Estrada has been a programmer since 1996 and a Java developer since 2001. He loves all topics related to computer science. With more than 15 years of experience in high-availability and enterprise software, he has been designing and implementing architectures since 2003. His specialization is in systems integration, and he mainly participates in projects related to the financial sector. He has been an enterprise architect for BEA Systems and Oracle Inc., but he also enjoys web, mobile, and game programming. Raúl is a supporter of free software and enjoys experimenting with new technologies, frameworks, languages, and methods. Raúl is the author of other Packt Publishing titles, such as Fast Data Processing Systems with SMACK and Apache Kafka Cookbook.
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