> NOTE: Server side replication is supported for idempotent versions on directory objects.

### Idempotent versions on delete markers

Duplicate delete markers are not created on MinIO buckets with versioning, if an application performs a soft delete on an object repeatedly - that object will only ever have a single DELETE marker for all such successive attempts. This is done to ensure that repeated soft deletes do not ever need multiple versions in the first place.

It must be noted that if active-active replication is set up with delete marker replication, there is potential for duplicate delete markers to be created if both source and target concurrently set a Delete Marker or if one/both of the clusters went down at tandem before the replication event was synced.This is an unavoidable side-effect in active-active replication caused by allowing delete markers set on a object version with `REPLICA` status back to source.

	for _, rule := range lc.FilterRules(obj) {
		if obj.ExpiredObjectDeleteMarker() {
			if rule.Expiration.DeleteMarker.val {
				// Indicates whether MinIO will remove a delete marker with no noncurrent versions.
				// Only latest marker is removed. If set to true, the delete marker will be expired;
				// if set to false the policy takes no action. This cannot be specified with Days or
				// Date in a Lifecycle Expiration Policy.

	Expires              time.Time // Is only used in POST/PUT operations

	DeleteMarker            bool // Is only set in DELETE operations for delete marker replication
	CheckDMReplicationReady bool // Is delete marker ready to be replicated - set only during HEAD
	Tagging                 bool // Is only in GET/HEAD operations to return tagging metadata along with regular metadata and body.

```
mc replicate edit alias/bucket --id xyz.id --replicate "delete,delete-marker"
```

To re-enable replica metadata modification syncing,

```
mc replicate edit alias/bucket --id xyz.id --replicate "delete,delete-marker,replica-metadata-sync"
```

## MinIO Extension

### Replicating Deletes

type ListMultipartsInfo struct {
	// Together with upload-id-marker, this parameter specifies the multipart upload
	// after which listing should begin.
	KeyMarker string

	// Together with key-marker, specifies the multipart upload after which listing
	// should begin. If key-marker is not specified, the upload-id-marker parameter
	// is ignored.
	UploadIDMarker string

			}
		case "FilterPrefix":
			z.FilterPrefix, err = dc.ReadString()
			if err != nil {
				err = msgp.WrapError(err, "FilterPrefix")
				return
			}
		case "Marker":
			z.Marker, err = dc.ReadString()
			if err != nil {
				err = msgp.WrapError(err, "Marker")
				return
			}
		case "Limit":
			z.Limit, err = dc.ReadInt()
			if err != nil {
				err = msgp.WrapError(err, "Limit")
				return
			}

	// is true), you can use the key name in this field as marker in the subsequent
	// request to get next set of objects. Server lists objects in alphabetical
	// order Note: This element is returned only if you have delimiter request parameter
	// specified. If response does not include the NextMaker and it is truncated,
	// you can use the value of the last Key in the response as the marker in the
	// subsequent request to get the next set of object keys.

// Special conditions required by MinIO server are as below
//   - delimiter if set should be equal to '/', otherwise the request is rejected.
//   - marker if set should have a common prefix with 'prefix' param, otherwise
//     the request is rejected.
func validateListObjectsArgs(prefix, marker, delimiter, encodingType string, maxKeys int) APIErrorCode {
	// Max keys cannot be negative.
	if maxKeys < 0 {
		return ErrInvalidMaxKeys
	}

	--remote-bucket http://minio:minio123@127.0.0.1:9004/bucket \
	--replicate "existing-objects,delete,delete-marker,replica-metadata-sync"
sleep 1

echo "adding replication rule for b -> a : ${remote_arn}"
./mc replicate add siteb/bucket/ \
	--remote-bucket http://minio:minio123@127.0.0.1:9001/bucket \
	--replicate "existing-objects,delete,delete-marker,replica-metadata-sync"
sleep 1

echo "adding replication rule for a -> c : ${remote_arn}"