diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/shard/IndexShard.java b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/shard/IndexShard.java
index 1f040b5ff9be6..0df1fe83a06e1 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/shard/IndexShard.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/shard/IndexShard.java
@@ -3671,6 +3671,10 @@ private EngineConfig newEngineConfig(LongSupplier globalCheckpointSupplier) thro
 
         final List<ReferenceManager.RefreshListener> internalRefreshListener = new ArrayList<>();
         internalRefreshListener.add(new RefreshMetricUpdater(refreshMetric));
+        if (this.checkpointPublisher != null && shardRouting.primary() && indexSettings.isSegRepLocalEnabled()) {
+            internalRefreshListener.add(new CheckpointRefreshListener(this, this.checkpointPublisher));
+        }
+
         if (isRemoteStoreEnabled()) {
             internalRefreshListener.add(
                 new RemoteStoreRefreshListener(
@@ -3682,9 +3686,6 @@ private EngineConfig newEngineConfig(LongSupplier globalCheckpointSupplier) thro
             );
         }
 
-        if (this.checkpointPublisher != null && shardRouting.primary() && indexSettings.isSegRepLocalEnabled()) {
-            internalRefreshListener.add(new CheckpointRefreshListener(this, this.checkpointPublisher));
-        }
         /**
          * With segment replication enabled for primary relocation, recover replica shard initially as read only and
          * change to a writeable engine during relocation handoff after a round of segment replication.
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/shard/RemoteStoreRefreshListener.java b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/shard/RemoteStoreRefreshListener.java
index e37303ad3e323..77c9d431bfafc 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/shard/RemoteStoreRefreshListener.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/shard/RemoteStoreRefreshListener.java
@@ -197,6 +197,8 @@ private synchronized void syncSegments(boolean isRetry) {
             logger.info("syncSegments is only supported for InternalEngine, called with {}. Skipping", indexShard.getEngine());
             return;
         }
+        ReplicationCheckpoint checkpoint = indexShard.getLatestReplicationCheckpoint();
+        indexShard.onCheckpointPublished(checkpoint);
         beforeSegmentsSync(isRetry);
         long refreshTimeMs = segmentTracker.getLocalRefreshTimeMs(), refreshClockTimeMs = segmentTracker.getLocalRefreshClockTimeMs();
         long refreshSeqNo = segmentTracker.getLocalRefreshSeqNo();
@@ -220,7 +222,6 @@ private synchronized void syncSegments(boolean isRetry) {
                     SegmentInfos segmentInfos = segmentInfosGatedCloseable.get();
                     // Capture replication checkpoint before uploading the segments as upload can take some time and checkpoint can
                     // move.
-                    ReplicationCheckpoint checkpoint = indexShard.getLatestReplicationCheckpoint();
                     long lastRefreshedCheckpoint = ((InternalEngine) indexShard.getEngine()).lastRefreshedCheckpoint();
                     Collection<String> localSegmentsPostRefresh = segmentInfos.files(true);
 
diff --git a/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/index/shard/IndexShardTests.java b/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/index/shard/IndexShardTests.java
index ac36b11751351..fffb8958b4b34 100644
--- a/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/index/shard/IndexShardTests.java
+++ b/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/index/shard/IndexShardTests.java
@@ -2631,6 +2631,7 @@ public void testRecoveryFailsAfterMovingToRelocatedState() throws InterruptedExc
     public void testRelocatedForRemoteTranslogBackedIndexWithAsyncDurability() throws IOException {
         Settings settings = Settings.builder()
             .put(IndexMetadata.SETTING_VERSION_CREATED, Version.CURRENT)
+            .put(IndexMetadata.SETTING_REPLICATION_TYPE, ReplicationType.SEGMENT)
             .put(IndexMetadata.SETTING_NUMBER_OF_REPLICAS, 0)
             .put(IndexMetadata.SETTING_NUMBER_OF_SHARDS, 1)
             .put(IndexMetadata.SETTING_REMOTE_STORE_ENABLED, true)
@@ -4759,6 +4760,7 @@ public void testTranslogFactoryForReplicaShardWithoutRemoteStore() throws IOExce
     public void testTranslogFactoryForRemoteTranslogBackedPrimaryShard() throws IOException {
         Settings primarySettings = Settings.builder()
             .put(IndexMetadata.SETTING_VERSION_CREATED, Version.CURRENT)
+            .put(IndexMetadata.SETTING_REPLICATION_TYPE, ReplicationType.SEGMENT)
             .put(IndexMetadata.SETTING_NUMBER_OF_REPLICAS, 0)
             .put(IndexMetadata.SETTING_NUMBER_OF_SHARDS, 1)
             .put(IndexMetadata.SETTING_REMOTE_STORE_ENABLED, true)
diff --git a/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/index/shard/RemoteStoreRefreshListenerTests.java b/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/index/shard/RemoteStoreRefreshListenerTests.java
index 21a9393408529..6f38f080e5035 100644
--- a/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/index/shard/RemoteStoreRefreshListenerTests.java
+++ b/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/index/shard/RemoteStoreRefreshListenerTests.java
@@ -56,12 +56,17 @@ public class RemoteStoreRefreshListenerTests extends IndexShardTestCase {
     public void setup(boolean primary, int numberOfDocs) throws IOException {
         indexShard = newStartedShard(
             primary,
-            Settings.builder().put(IndexMetadata.SETTING_REMOTE_STORE_ENABLED, true).build(),
+            Settings.builder()
+                .put(IndexMetadata.SETTING_REMOTE_STORE_ENABLED, true)
+                .put(SETTING_REPLICATION_TYPE, ReplicationType.SEGMENT)
+                .build(),
             new InternalEngineFactory()
         );
 
-        indexDocs(1, numberOfDocs);
-        indexShard.refresh("test");
+        if (primary) {
+            indexDocs(1, numberOfDocs);
+            indexShard.refresh("test");
+        }
 
         clusterService = new ClusterService(
             Settings.EMPTY,