This document explains the design approach of server side bucket replication. If you're looking to get started with replication, we suggest you go through the [Bucket replication guide](https://github.com/minio/minio/blob/master/docs/bucket/replication/README.md) first.

## Overview

Refer to the sizing guide with details on the default parity count chosen for different erasure stripe sizes [here](https://github.com/minio/minio/blob/master/docs/distributed/SIZING.md)

MinIO places new objects in server pools based on proportionate free space, per pool. Following pseudo code demonstrates this behavior.

```go

A sample msgpack-JSON `xl.meta`, you can debug the content inside `xl.meta` using [xl-meta.go](https://github.com/minio/minio/tree/master/docs/debugging#decoding-metadata) program.

```json
{
  "Versions": [
    {
      "Type": 1,
      "V2Obj": {
        "ID": "KWUs8S+8RZq4Vp5TWy6KFg==",
        "DDir": "X3pDAFu8Rjyft7QD6t7W5g==",

Lifecycle transition functionality provided in [bucket lifecycle guide](https://github.com/minio/minio/master/docs/bucket/lifecycle/README.md) allows tiering of content from MinIO object store to public clouds or other MinIO clusters.