[NAME], A saveset (index or otherwise) goes into an expired state when it crosses its retention period and when there are no other savesets depend on it. For example: A full saveset does not expire even though its retention has crossed if there are any other level or incremental savesets that are depended on it.
Hello, I have a tape storing some save sets which clone retention time has expired but it is still in "recoverable" state. so the tape is still not recyclable and re-usable yet. These save sets are index save sets: Client SaveSet SSID SaveTime CloneRetentionTime Level Status Size Flags hvbra02b index:nasbra01 2072880661 5/1/21 8:00:35 PM 8/1/21 full recoverable 13 GB crhvbra02b index:dbbra07b 2089657877 5/1/21 8:00:34 PM 8/1/21 full recoverable 267 MB crhvbra02b index:dbbra05b 2106435093 5/1/21 8:00:33 PM 8/1/21 full recoverable 262 MB crhvbra02b index:prnbra02 2123212309 5/1/21 8:00:32 PM 8/1/21 full recoverable 309 MB crtsebra02 DISASTER_RECOVERY:\ 178093172 5/13/21 8:22:25 PM 8/13/21 incr recyclable 105 KB cEtsebra02 WINDOWS ROLES AND FEATURES:\ 194870383 5/13/21 8:22:20 PM 8/13/21 incr recyclable 5723 KB cE Can someone clarify to me when these index save sets will become recyclable. It seems it depends on the level because when I looked for this specific save sets I found that  level "1" ones are expired: mminfo -avot -q name=index:issbra02 -r "volume(20), client(30), name(8), ssretent, clretent, level, ssid, sumflags" 360273L6 hvbra02b index:issbra02 8/1/2021 8/1/2021 full 2022549013 cr360273L6 hvbra02b index:issbra02 8/2/2021 8/2/2021 1 2861496249 cE360273L6 hvbra02b index:issbra02 8/3/2021 8/3/2021 1 1217415421 cE360273L6 hvbra02b index:issbra02 8/4/2021 8/4/2021 1 2274466411 cE360273L6 hvbra02b index:issbra02 8/5/2021 8/5/2021 1 2828200890 cE Will these full index save sets ever become recyclable also? if so when? Thank you.  
index save set level and flag