mc admin replicate

Changed: RELEASE.2023-01-11T03-14-16Z

mc admin replicate edit renamed to mc admin replicate update
mc admin replicate remove renamed to mc admin replicate rm

Description

The mc admin replicate command creates and manages site replication for a set of MinIO peer sites.

Site replication mimics an active-active bucket replication, but for multiple MinIO deployments. Wherever a change occurs to IAM settings, buckets, or objects across the set of sites, the change replicates across all sites in the site replication group.

Where bucket replication manages the mirroring of particular buckets or objects from one location to another within a deployment or across deployments, site replication continuously mirrors an entire MinIO site to other sites.

mc admin replicate only supports site replication for distributed deployments when configuring site replication.

Only one deployment can have any data when initiating a new site replication configuration.

Site replication enforces bucket versioning on all buckets, including existing buckets and any buckets added after initiating site replication. Site replication fully synchronizes versioned objects, compared to mc mirror which operates only on the latest version of an object

Use mc admin on MinIO Deployments Only

MinIO does not support using mc admin commands with other S3-compatible services, regardless of their claimed compatibility with MinIO deployments.

The mc admin replicate command has the following subcommands:

Subcommand	Description
`mc admin replicate add`	Create a new site replication configuration or expand an existing configuration.
`mc admin replicate info`	Returns information about site replication configuration.
`mc admin replicate resync`	Resynchronizes content from one site to a second site if the second site has lost data.
`mc admin replicate rm`	Removes an entire site replication configuration or one or more peer sites from participating in site replication.
`mc admin replicate status`	Displays the status for replicable data across participating sites.
`mc admin replicate update`	Modify the endpoint of the specified peer site in the site replication configuration.

Syntax

`mc admin replicate add`

mc-cmd

Create or expand a site replication configuration. The configuration uses asynchronous site replication by default, as MinIO recommends.

To enable synchronous site replication, create the replication using this command first. Then use mc admin replicate update --mode sync to update the configuration.

Consider a multi-site MinIO topology with three separate MinIO deployments using the following aliases: minio1, minio2, and minio3. All three sites have complete bidirectional network access and low latency between sites.

mc admin replicate add minio1 minio2 minio3

The following command expands an existing site replication that includes peer sites minio1, minio2, minio3, and minio4 to an additional peer site, minio5. minio5 contains no data. List all existing peer sites first. List the site to expand to last.

If any existing sites are unreachable, first remove the unreachable sites with mc admin replicate rm, then proceed with the site replication expansion.

mc admin replicate add minio1 minio2 minio3 minio4 minio5

The following command creates a new site replication configuration with ILM expiration rule synchronization between peer sites minio1, minio2, and minio3.

mc admin replicate add minio1 minio2 minio3 --replicate-ilm-expiry

The command has the following syntax:

mc [GLOBALFLAGS] admin replicate add      \
                            ALIAS1        \
                            ALIAS2        \
                            [ALIAS3 ...]  \
                            [--replicate-ilm-expiry]

`ALIAS`

mc-cmd

Required

The alias of a MinIO deployment to include in site replication.

At least two MinIO deployment aliases are required to create a site replication. Only the first alias can have buckets or objects. The first site can also be empty.

To expand an existing site replication to one more new replication sites, list all existing peer site aliases in the site replication set to expand. Then include one or more additional aliases to add to the existing site replication. The peers being added must be empty.

`--replicate-ilm-expiry`

mc-cmd

Optional

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Replicate ILM expiration rules across peers.

`mc admin replicate update`

mc-cmd

Modifies the endpoint used for an existing peer site participating in site replication.

Changed: RELEASE.2023-01-11T03-14-16Z

mc admin replicate edit renamed to mc admin replicate update.

mc admin replicate update                                                   \
                   minio2                                                 \
                   --deployment-id c1758167-4426-454f-9aae-5c3dfdf6df64   \
                   --endpoint https://minio2:9000

The command has the following syntax:

mc [GLOBALFLAGS] admin replicate update                     \
                            ALIAS                           \
                            --deployment-id [deploymentID]  \
                            --endpoint [newEndpoint]        \
                            --mode ["sync" | "async"]       \
                            --enable-ilm-expiry-replication \
                            --disable-ilm-expiry-replication

`ALIAS`

mc-cmd

Required

The alias of the MinIO deployment.

`--bucket-bandwidth`

mc-cmd

Set default bandwidth limit for bucket in bits per second.

Valid units include:

B for bytes
K for kilobytes
M for megabytes
G for gigabytes
T for terabytes
Ki for kibibytes
Mi for mibibytes
Gi for gibibytes
Ti for tebibytes

For example, the following command limits the replication on the myminio deployment to no more than 2 Gigabytes per second.

mc admin replicate update myminio --deployment-id c1758167-4426-454f-9aae-5c3dfdf6df64 --bucket-bandwidth "2G"

`--deployment-id`

mc-cmd

Required

The unique id of the deployment to change.

The deployment ID can be found by running mc admin replicate info ALIAS

`--disable-ilm-expiry-replication`

mc-cmd

Optional

Added: mc

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Stops the replication of ILM expiration rules between peer sites. Existing rules already synchronized across peers are not removed from any peer site.

`--enable-ilm-expiry-replication`

mc-cmd

Optional

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Start replication of ILM expiration rules between peer sites.

`--endpoint`

mc-cmd

Required

The new endpoint or URL to associate with the peer site.

`--mode`

mc-cmd

Optional

Specify whether MinIO performs replication operations to the peer synchronously or asynchronously. Available values are sync and async.

Defaults to async.

`--sync`

mc-cmd

Optional

Important

The --sync flag has been deprecated as of RELEASE.2023-07-07T05-25-51Z. Use --mode instead.

Enable or disable synchronous site replication. Available values are enable and disable. If not defined, MInIO uses asynchronous site replication.

`mc admin replicate rm, remove`

mc-cmd

Changed: RELEASE.2023-01-11T03-14-16Z

The mc admin replicate remove subcommand renamed to mc admin replicate rm.

Removes one or more sites from a site replication configuration.

Remember, if you intend to re-add the site to a site replication configuration in the future, it must be empty of replicable data.

Remove site replication for all connected sites for an existing site replication configuration that includes minio2. This deletes the site replication configuration for all participating sites.

mc admin replicate rm      \
                   minio2  \
                   --all   \
                   --force

Remove the sites with alias names minio5 and minio6 from an existing site replication configuration that includes minio2

mc admin replicate rm      \
                   minio2  \
                   minio5  \
                   minio6  \
                   --force

The command has the following syntax:

mc [GLOBALFLAGS] admin rm          \
                       TARGET      \
                       ALIAS1      \
                       [ALIAS2...] \
                       --all       \
                       --force

`TARGET`

mc-cmd

Required

The alias of an active MinIO deployment participating in the site replication to target. Do not use an alias of a deployment to be removed, unless removing all sites from site replication.

`ALIAS`

mc-cmd

Optional

The alias of an active MinIO deployment to remove from a site replication configuration. May be repeated to remove additional sites.

`--all`

mc-cmd

Optional

Include this flag to remove all sites configured for site replication and end the site replication configuration.

`--force`

mc-cmd

Required

This flag forces the removal of the specified peer site(s) from the site replication configuration.

`mc admin replicate info`

mc-cmd

Returns information about the sites in the site replication configuration.

mc admin replicate info minio1

mc [GLOBALFLAGS] admin replicate info ALIAS

`ALIAS`

mc-cmd

Required

The alias of an active MinIO deployment in the site replication configuration.

`mc admin replicate status`

mc-cmd

Displays the status of the sites, buckets, users, groups, or policies for a site replication configuration.

Display the overall replication status for a site replication configuration that includes the site minio1.

mc admin replicate status minio1

Display the replication status of buckets across sites for a site replication configuration that includes the site minio1.

mc admin replicate status     \
                   minio1     \
                   --buckets

Display the site replication status of a bucket called images across sites for a site replication configuration that contains the site minio1.

mc admin replicate status           \
                    minio1          \
                    --bucket images

Display the site replication status for the setting for a user, janedoe, across sites for a site replication configuration that contains the site minio1.

mc admin replicate status         \
                   minio1         \
                   --user janedoe

The output of the above examples resembles the following:

Bucket replication status:
●  30/30 Buckets in sync

Policy replication status:
●  5/5 Policies in sync

User replication status:
●  3/3 Users in sync

Group replication status:
No Groups present

ILM Expiry Rules replication status:
●  5/5 ILM Expiry Rules in sync

Object replication status:
Replication status since 1 day
Summary:
Replicated:    0 objects (0 B)
Queued:        - 0 objects, (0 B) (avg: 0 objects, 0 B; max: 0 objects, 0 B)
Received:      0 objects (0 B)

Display the site replication status across sites for the ILM expiration rule with rule ID of ckok9v5b4dtgofkbi6tg for a site replication configuration that contains the site minio1.

mc admin replicate status minio1 --ilm-expiry-rule ckok9v5b4dtgofkbi6tg

The output resembles the following:

●  ILM Expiry Rule replication summary for: ckok9v5b4dtgofkbi6tg

ILMExpiryRule   | MINIO1          | MINIO2
ILM Expiry Rule | ✔               | ✔

mc [GLOBALFLAGS] admin replicate status          \
                   TARGET                        \
                   [--all]                       \
                   [--buckets]                   \
                   [--bucket nameOfBucket]       \
                   [--groups]                    \
                   [--group nameOfGroup]         \
                   [--ilm-expiry-rules]          \
                   [--ilm-expiry-rule <rule ID>] \
                   [--policies]                  \
                   [--policy nameOfPolicy]       \
                   [--users]                     \
                   [--user accessKey]

`TARGET`

mc-cmd

Required

The alias of an active MinIO deployment in the site replication configuration.

`--all`

mc-cmd

Optional

Display all available site replication status information.

`--buckets`

mc-cmd

Optional

Display the replication status of all buckets.

`--bucket`

mc-cmd

Optional

Display the replication status of a specific bucket by including the bucket name after the flag.

`--groups`

mc-cmd

Optional

Display the replication status of all groups.

`--group`

mc-cmd

Optional

Display the replication status of a specific group by including the group name after the flag.

`--ilm-expiry-rules`

mc-cmd

Optional

Added: mc

RELEASE.2023-12-02T02-03-28Z

Display sync information about ILM expiration rules.

Mutually exclusive with --ilm-expiry-rule

`--ilm-expiry-rule`

mc-cmd

Optional

Added: mc

RELEASE.2023-12-02T02-03-28Z

Display replication status information about the specified ILM expiration rule.

Mutually exclusive with --ilm-expiry-rules

`--policies`

mc-cmd

Optional

Display the replication status of all policies.

`--policy`

mc-cmd

Optional

Display the replication status of a specific policy by including the policy name after the flag.

`--users`

mc-cmd

Optional

Display the replication status of all users.

`--user`

mc-cmd

Optional

Display the replication status of a specific user by including the user name after the flag.

`mc admin replicate resync`

mc-cmd

Resynchronizes data from one site in the replication configuration to a second site in the replication configuration in the event of lost data.

The following command starts a resynchronization process to restore minio2 from minio1

mc admin replicate resync start minio1 minio2

The following command shows the status of a resynchronization currently in progress.

mc admin replicate resync status minio1 minio2

The following command stops a resynchronization that is in progress.

mc admin replicate resync cancel minio1 minio2

mc [GLOBALFLAGS] admin replicate resync start|status|cancel ALIAS1 ALIAS2

Replace ALIAS1 with the alias for the site that has the data to restore.
Replace ALIAS2 with the alias for the site that needs resynched data.

`start`

mc-cmd

Launches a new resynchronization process from one site with data to a second site that needs synchronization.

`status`

mc-cmd

Shows the status of an existing resynchronization process between two sites configured for site replication.

`cancel`

mc-cmd

Ends a resynchronization process currently in progress between two sites configured for site replication.

`alias1`

mc-cmd

The alias of an active MinIO deployment in the site replication configuration with the data you want to resync to another site.

`alias2`

mc-cmd

The alias of an active MinIO deployment in the site replication configuration that needs data resynced from another site.

Global Flags

This command supports any of the global flags.

Last modified August 2, 2026: init commit (8338d5b)