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## Prerequisites

- [Understand the KES server concepts](https://github.com/minio/kes/wiki/Concepts)

## Auto Encryption

Auto-Encryption is useful when MinIO administrator wants to ensure that all data stored on MinIO is encrypted at rest.

### Using `mc encrypt` (recommended)

of form `"<user>:<password>@tcp(<host>:<port>)/<database>"`

MinIO supports persistent event store. The persistent store will backup events if MySQL connection goes offline and then replays the stored events when the broken connection comes back up. The event store can be configured by setting a directory path in `queue_dir` field, and the maximum number of events, which can be stored in a `queue_dir`, in `queue_limit` field. For example, `queue_dir` can be set to `/home/events` and `queue_limit`...

### Homebrew (recommended)

Run the following command to install the latest stable MinIO package using [Homebrew](https://brew.sh/). Replace ``/data`` with the path to the drive or directory in which you want MinIO to store data.

```sh
brew install minio/stable/minio
minio server /data
```

## Overview