title: How to copy a topic from a kafka cluster to another kafka cluster?
body: <p>One way to do that as the Kafka documentation shows is through <em>kafka.tools.MirrorMaker</em> which can do that trick. However, I need to copy a topic (say <strong><em>test</em></strong> with 1 partition) (its content and meta data) from a production environment to a development environment where connectivity is not there. I could do simple file transfer between environments though.
  My question: if I move the <strong>*.log</strong> and <strong>.index</strong> from the folder <em>test-0</em> to the destination Kafka cluster, is that good enough? Or there is more that I need to do like meta data and ZooKeeper-related data that I need to move too?</p>