}
    ]
}
```

### 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": {
                "DeleteMarker": true

	errPriorityMissing                        = Errorf("Priority must be specified")
	errInvalidDeleteMarkerReplicationStatus   = Errorf("Delete marker replication status is invalid")
	errDestinationSourceIdentical             = Errorf("Destination bucket cannot be the same as the source bucket.")

				t.Log("ListObjectVersions, bucket:", testCase.bucketName, "prefix:",
					testCase.prefix, "marker:", testCase.marker, "delimiter:",
					testCase.delimiter, "maxkeys:", testCase.maxKeys)

				resultV, err = obj.ListObjectVersions(context.Background(), testCase.bucketName,
					testCase.prefix, testCase.marker, "", testCase.delimiter, testCase.maxKeys)
			} else {

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					continue
				}

				// any object with only single DEL marker we don't need
				// to decommission, just skip it, this also includes
				// any other versions that have already expired.
				remainingVersions := len(fivs.Versions) - expired
				if version.Deleted && remainingVersions == 1 {
					decommissioned++
					stopFn(errors.New("DELETE marked object with no other non-current versions will be skipped"))
					continue

```
mc replicate edit alias/bucket --id xyz.id --replicate "delete,delete-marker"
```

To re-enable replica metadata modification syncing,

```
mc replicate edit alias/bucket --id xyz.id --replicate "delete,delete-marker,replica-metadata-sync"
```

## MinIO Extension

### Replicating Deletes

}

// GetDataDir returns an expected dataDir given FileInfo
//   - deleteMarker returns "delete-marker"
//   - returns "legacy" if FileInfo is XLV1 and DataDir is
//     empty, returns DataDir otherwise
//   - returns "dataDir"
func (fi FileInfo) GetDataDir() string {
	if fi.Deleted {
		return "delete-marker"
	}
	if fi.XLV1 && fi.DataDir == "" {
		return "legacy"
	}
	return fi.DataDir
}

          # retainVersions: 0 # (default) delete all versions of the object. This option is the fastest.
          # retainVersions: 5 # keep the latest 5 versions of the object.
  
    - type: deleted # objects with delete marker as their latest version
      name: NAME # match object names that satisfy the wildcard expression.
      olderThan: 10h # match objects older than this value (e.g. 7d10h31s)

![delete](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/minio/minio/master/docs/bucket/versioning/versioning_DELETE_versionEnabled.png)

	var loi ListObjectsInfo
	opts := listPathOptions{
		V1:          v1,
		Bucket:      bucket,
		Prefix:      prefix,
		Separator:   delimiter,
		Limit:       maxKeysPlusOne(maxKeys, marker != ""),
		Marker:      marker,
		InclDeleted: false,