# MinIO Erasure Code Quickstart Guide [![Slack](https://slack.min.io/slack?type=svg)](https://slack.min.io)

MinIO protects data against hardware failures and silent data corruption using erasure code and checksums. With the highest level of redundancy, you may lose up to half (N/2) of the total drives and still be able to recover the data.

## What is Erasure Code?

# Distributed Server Design Guide [![Slack](https://slack.min.io/slack?type=svg)](https://slack.min.io)

This document explains the design, architecture and advanced use cases of the MinIO distributed server.

## Command-line

```
NAME:
  minio server - start object storage server

USAGE:
  minio server [FLAGS] DIR1 [DIR2..]
  minio server [FLAGS] DIR{1...64}
  minio server [FLAGS] DIR{1...64} DIR{65...128}

DIR:

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# MinIO Quickstart Guide

# MinIO Logging Quickstart Guide [![Slack](https://slack.min.io/slack?type=svg)](https://slack.min.io)

This document explains how to configure MinIO server to log to different logging targets.

## Log Targets

MinIO supports currently two target types

- console
- http

### Logging Console Target

Console target is on always and cannot be disabled.

### Logging HTTP Target

# MinIO Server Debugging Guide [![Slack](https://slack.min.io/slack?type=svg)](https://slack.min.io) [![Docker Pulls](https://img.shields.io/docker/pulls/minio/minio.svg?maxAge=604800)](https://hub.docker.com/r/minio/minio/)

## HTTP Trace

HTTP tracing can be enabled by using [`mc admin trace`](https://docs.min.io/community/minio-object-store/reference/minio-mc-admin/mc-admin-trace.html) command.

Example:

```sh
minio server /data
```

# Distributed MinIO Quickstart Guide [![Slack](https://slack.min.io/slack?type=svg)](https://slack.min.io) [![Docker Pulls](https://img.shields.io/docker/pulls/minio/minio.svg?maxAge=604800)](https://hub.docker.com/r/minio/minio/)

# MinIO STS Quickstart Guide [![Slack](https://slack.min.io/slack?type=svg)](https://slack.min.io)

The MinIO Security Token Service (STS) is an endpoint service that enables clients to request temporary credentials for MinIO resources. Temporary credentials work almost identically to default admin credentials, with some differences:

# Bucket Versioning Guide [![Slack](https://slack.min.io/slack?type=svg)](https://slack.min.io) [![Docker Pulls](https://img.shields.io/docker/pulls/minio/minio.svg?maxAge=604800)](https://hub.docker.com/r/minio/minio/)

# Keycloak Quickstart Guide [![Slack](https://slack.min.io/slack?type=svg)](https://slack.min.io)

Keycloak is an open source Identity and Access Management solution aimed at modern applications and services, this document covers configuring Keycloak identity provider support with MinIO.

## Prerequisites

Configure and install keycloak server by following [Keycloak Installation Guide](https://www.keycloak.org/docs/latest/server_installation/#installing-the-software).