Of course you can stage/clone save sets. Although these commands work almost 
the same, you should know:
  - you can only clone to a clone pool
  - you can stage to any pool

Using NW consolidation is not a good idea because NW consolidates per save set. 
He actually APPENDS the level 1 to the last full creating a new but artificial 
full. This works but you need to know:
  - initiating recoveries are simple because you always have a moderately 
updated full. 
  - It is obvious that you will need some parts from various save sets. 
Consequently, you should use it with disks only (due to random access). But 
here they will need more space than a file level based consolidation.
That's why NW Save Set Consolidation never really became popular but almost 
forgotten.

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