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# Automatic Site Replication

This feature allows multiple independent MinIO sites (or clusters) that are using the same external IDentity Provider (IDP) to be configured as replicas. In this situation the set of replica sites are referred to as peer sites or just sites. When site-replication is enabled on a set of sites, the following changes are replicated to all other sites:

- Creation and deletion of buckets and objects

### Step 1: Ensure postgresql minimum requirements are met

MinIO requires PostgreSQL version 9.5 or above. MinIO uses the [`INSERT ON CONFLICT`](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/sql-insert.html#SQL-ON-CONFLICT) (aka UPSERT) feature, introduced in version 9.5 and the [JSONB](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/datatype-json.html) data-type introduced in version 9.4.

### Step 2: Add PostgreSQL endpoint to MinIO

Therefore, compression is disabled when encrypting by default, and must be enabled separately.

Consult our security experts on [SUBNET](https://min.io/pricing) to help you evaluate if
your setup can use this feature combination safely.

To enable compression+encryption use:

```bash
~ mc admin config set myminio compression allow_encryption=on
```