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# Create New Target

## Create New Target

1. Log in to the T4K **Management Console**.
2. From the left panel menu, click **Backup & Recovery**.
3. Select one of your clusters from the left panel menu, which displays a dropdown menu for you to select from.\
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4. From this dropdown menu, select **Targets**.
5. From the page displayed, select **Create New**.
6. Select a **Namespace** that you wish to deploy a target into. Remember that you can easily deploy a target to a different namespace later.
7. Type a **Storage Quota Warning Limit** value it's Optional.
8. Select the size measurement definition for the **Threshold Capacity**.

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9\. Choose **NFS**.

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10\. Type an NFS location in the **Export** field. It must have the following format:\
`00.00.00.00:/src/nfs/kubedata`

Examples:\
`trilio.net:/data/location/abcde`\
`192.156.13.1:/user/keeth/data`

11\. Optionally, type additional value(s) to mount as NFS directory. You can provide multiple

values by using comma-separated values:

Example:\
/nfs,soft,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,nosuid server.example.com:/home\
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12\. Use the **Enable Browsing** switch to enable or disable browsing for available targets.

13\. Use the **Event Target** toggle to enable or disable event target.

14. Click **Continue**\
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9\. Choose **ObjectStore**.

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10\. From this dropdown, select the name of the third party vendor hosting the target.

11\. In this text field, type the name of the bucket within object store.

12\. In this text field, type the name of the region where the object store resides.

13\. In this text field, type the URL to connect to the object store.

14\. Use this toggle switch to enable or disable **Object Locking**.

15\. Use this toggle to skip certification verification.

16\. Select an existing secret that you wish to use for your target.

17\. Use the **Enable Browsing** switch to enable or disable browsing for available targets.

18. Use the **Event Target** Toggle to enable Event target.

19\. Optionally, if there are lots of secrets, use the search function to find the correct secret.

20\. If an existing secret is not available, create a new secret by clicking **Create New**.

21\. Select **Continue**.
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