Landwehr, Jerome wrote:

A future version of NW is supposed to enable different browse and
retention periods for each version of a clone (I assume this is the
staging mechanism)

currently, without this functionality, the only way is manual recycling
(read: relabel the VTL tapes) if you don't want to wait around until the
(shared) retention is reached

this is what I do in our production environment to free up VTL space

Future version in this case is 7.3.x, which is already available.

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