# CCR - Soft deletes limits and prevention of data loss because of premature merging

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ccr-soft-deletes-limits-and-prevention-of-data-loss-because-of-premature-merging/175523
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** ccr-cross-cluster-replication
**Created:** [April 5, 2019, 6:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ccr-soft-deletes-limits-and-prevention-of-data-loss-because-of-premature-merging/175523 "2019-04-05T06:28:26Z")
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### Author: ![kley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kley/32/43533_2.png) [@kley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kley)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2019, 7:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ccr-soft-deletes-limits-and-prevention-of-data-loss-because-of-premature-merging/175523/3 "2019-04-05T07:02:19Z")

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Thanks for the quick response!

Interesting, why can I still set a retention rate when it's not needed? 😃  
Anyway, driving the question a bit further to hopefully tackle down my problem.  
Lately I run into an issue, that my follower index never replicates anything. It just creates the index and does not fetch any data from the leader. It doesn't matter if I reduce the load. Thats why i was thinking maybe a premature merge could have caused the problem. When I call the ccr-stats API for that index, it tells me, that it's not able to fetch the licence information. I explained that in more detail over here: [CCR - Remove follow\_stats and License fetching problem](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ccr-remove-follow-stats-and-license-fetching-problem/175389)

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