"Total cluster objects count")
	usageVersionsCountMD = NewGaugeMD(usageVersionsCount,
		"Total cluster object versions (including delete markers) count")
	usageDeleteMarkersCountMD = NewGaugeMD(usageDeleteMarkersCount,
		"Total cluster delete markers count")
	usageBucketsCountMD = NewGaugeMD(usageBucketsCount,
		"Total cluster buckets count")
	usageObjectsDistributionMD = NewGaugeMD(usageSizeDistribution,

      purge:
          # retainVersions: 0 # (default) delete all versions of the object. This option is the fastest.
          # retainVersions: 5 # keep the latest 5 versions of the object including delete markers.

  notify:
    endpoint: https://notify.endpoint # notification endpoint to receive job completion status
    token: Bearer xxxxx # optional authentication token for the notification endpoint
  
  retry:

> 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.

        }
    ]
}
```

### 3.3 Automatic removal of delete markers with no other versions

When an object has only one version as a delete marker, the latter can be automatically removed after a certain number of days using the following configuration:

```
{
    "Rules": [
        {
            "ID": "Removing all delete markers",
            "Expiration": {
                "ExpiredObjectDeleteMarker": true

| `minio_cluster_usage_buckets_versions_count`                    | Total object versions count in bucket, including delete markers. <br><br>Type: gauge | `bucket`          |
| `minio_cluster_usage_buckets_delete_markers_count`              | Total delete markers count in bucket. <br><br>Type: gauge                            | `bucket`          |

./mc mb -l myminio/versioned

./mc encrypt set sse-s3 myminio/versioned

./mc mirror internal myminio/versioned/ --quiet >/dev/null

## Soft delete (creates delete markers)
./mc rm -r --force myminio/versioned >/dev/null

## mirror again to create another set of version on top
./mc mirror internal myminio/versioned/ --quiet >/dev/null

./mc mb myminio2/testbucket/
./mc version enable myminio2/testbucket/

./mc replicate add myminio1/testbucket --remote-bucket http://minioadmin:minioadmin@localhost:9002/testbucket/ --priority 1

# Test replication of delete markers and permanent deletes

./mc cp README.md myminio1/testbucket/dir/file
./mc cp README.md myminio1/testbucket/dir/file

sleep 1s

echo "=== myminio1"
./mc ls --versions myminio1/testbucket/dir/file

./mc admin policy attach myminio/ lake --user=minio12345

./mc mb -l myminio/versioned

./mc mirror internal myminio/versioned/ --quiet >/dev/null

## Soft delete (creates delete markers)
./mc rm -r --force myminio/versioned >/dev/null

## mirror again to create another set of version on top
./mc mirror internal myminio/versioned/ --quiet >/dev/null

./mc admin policy attach myminio/ lake --user=minio12345

./mc mb -l myminio/versioned

./mc mirror internal myminio/versioned/ --quiet >/dev/null

## Soft delete (creates delete markers)
./mc rm -r --force myminio/versioned >/dev/null

## mirror again to create another set of version on top
./mc mirror internal myminio/versioned/ --quiet >/dev/null