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Comparisons

Compare Kafka backup and replication tools

Replication tools copy your data — including your mistakes — to another cluster in real time. Backup tools give you an immutable, point-in-time copy outside the failure domain. These guides compare OSO Kafka Backup with the tools teams most often evaluate alongside it, so you can pick the right layer of protection for your Kafka estate.

Head-to-head comparisons

OSO Kafka Backup vs MirrorMaker 2

Replication is not backup. See where MirrorMaker 2 fits, where it leaves you exposed, and when to choose point-in-time backups instead.

OSO Kafka Backup vs Confluent Replicator

Compare an open source backup and restore tool with Confluent's commercial replication offering, feature by feature.

From the documentation

Full feature comparison

Every alternative side by side: MirrorMaker 2, Confluent Replicator, tiered storage, and custom scripts.

Disaster recovery use cases

RPO/RTO trade-offs and the scenarios where backups beat replication.

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