- On versioned buckets, FTP/SFTP only operates on latest objects, if you need to retrieve
  an older version you must use an `S3 API client` such as [`mc`](https://github.com/minio/mc).

- All features currently used by your buckets will work as is without any changes
  - SSE (Server Side Encryption)
  - Replication (Server Side Replication)

## Prerequisites

By default, MinIO shards the objects across N/2 data and N/2 parity drives. Though, you can use [storage classes](https://github.com/minio/minio/tree/master/docs/erasure/storage-class) to use a custom configuration. We recommend N/2 data and parity blocks, as it ensures the best protection from drive failures.

## Configuring Site Replication

- Configure an alias in `mc` for each of the sites. For example if you have three MinIO sites, you may run:

```sh
mc alias set minio1 https://minio1.example.com:9000 adminuser adminpassword
mc alias set minio2 https://minio2.example.com:9000 adminuser adminpassword

	XMLName xml.Name `xml:"Tag"`
	Key     string   `xml:"Key,omitempty"`
	Value   string   `xml:"Value,omitempty"`
}

var (
	errInvalidTagKey   = Errorf("The TagKey you have provided is invalid")
	errInvalidTagValue = Errorf("The TagValue you have provided is invalid")

	errDuplicatedXMLTag = Errorf("duplicated XML Tag")
	errUnknownXMLTag    = Errorf("unknown XML Tag")
)

// UnmarshalXML - decodes XML data.

on 16 drive MinIO deployment. If you use eight data and eight parity drives, the file space usage will be approximately twice, i.e. 100 MiB
file will take 200 MiB space. But, if you use ten data and six parity drives, same 100 MiB file takes around 160 MiB. If you use 14 data and
two parity drives, 100 MiB file takes only approximately 114 MiB.

// Copyright (c) 2015-2021 MinIO, Inc.
//
// This file is part of MinIO Object Storage stack
//
// This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
// it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
// (at your option) any later version.
//
// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful

			// version or alter its lock settings unless they have special
			// permissions. With governance mode, you protect objects against
			// being deleted by most users, but you can still grant some users
			// permission to alter the retention settings or delete the object
			// if necessary. You can also use governance mode to test retention-period
			// settings before creating a compliance-mode retention period.

  2. kubectl port-forward $POD_NAME 9000 --namespace {{ .Release.Namespace }}

Read more about port forwarding here: http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/kubectl/kubectl_port-forward/

You can now access MinIO server on http://localhost:9000. Follow the below steps to connect to MinIO server with mc client:

  1. Download the MinIO mc client - https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/reference/minio-mc.html#quickstart

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```

### Checking cluster health for maintenance

You may query the cluster probe endpoint to check if the node which received the request can be taken down for maintenance, if the server replies back '412 Precondition Failed' this means you will lose HA. '200 OK' means you are okay to proceed.

```
curl http://minio1:9001/minio/health/cluster?maintenance=true
HTTP/1.1 412 Precondition Failed

//go:build !fips
// +build !fips

// Copyright (c) 2015-2021 MinIO, Inc.
//
// This file is part of MinIO Object Storage stack
//
// This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
// it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
// (at your option) any later version.
//