return madmin.ReplicateEditStatus{}, errSRInvalidRequest(fmt.Errorf("a peer cluster, rather than the local cluster (endpoint=%s, deployment-id=%s) needs to be specified while setting a 'sync' replication mode", peer.Endpoint, peer.DeploymentID))
	}

	for _, v := range sites.Sites {
		if peer.DeploymentID == v.DeploymentID {
			found = true