diff --git a/docs/bucket/replication/setup_2site_existing_replication.sh b/docs/bucket/replication/setup_2site_existing_replication.sh
index e4689b6fc..b07e976a9 100755
--- a/docs/bucket/replication/setup_2site_existing_replication.sh
+++ b/docs/bucket/replication/setup_2site_existing_replication.sh
@@ -86,8 +86,6 @@ sleep 1
 ./mc replicate resync start sitea/bucket/ --remote-bucket "${remote_arn}"
 sleep 10s ## sleep for 10s idea is that we give 100ms per object.
 
-count=$(./mc replicate resync status sitea/bucket --remote-bucket "${remote_arn}" --json | jq .resyncInfo.target[].replicationCount)
-
 ./mc ls -r --versions sitea/bucket >/tmp/sitea.txt
 ./mc ls -r --versions siteb/bucket >/tmp/siteb.txt
 
@@ -98,12 +96,6 @@ if [ $ret -ne 0 ]; then
 	exit 1
 fi
 
-if [ $count -ne 12 ]; then
-	echo "resync not complete after 30s - unexpected failure"
-	./mc diff sitea/bucket siteb/bucket
-	exit 1
-fi
-
 ./mc cp /tmp/data/file_1.txt sitea/bucket/marker_new
 ./mc rm sitea/bucket/marker_new