So does this mean CCC could make a clone of the Preview volume, if need be?
'Til now, I had gone no further than determining that CCC would allow me to select the Preview volume as a source, but since you asked, I installed DW for the 4th time...
(I ran
unsupported DW v 4.4 [the final version was 4.6] on an El Cap volume.)
- The Preview volume was the exact same size as the volume on which I ran DW.
- CCC allowed me to select the Preview volume as a source, and the cloning operation completed.
- I was able to boot into the clone (but I didn't do any testing).
- Cloning the Preview volume to an essentially empty volume took 26 1/2 minutes compared to the 1 1/4 minutes it took to clone the original to the same volume.
- When CCC cloned the Preview volume it apparently cloned even the empty space, because with SafetyNet on, the pre-existing data on my destination volume (both source and destination were 50 GB) was overwritten, whereas cloning the original volume under the same circumstances left it intact.
And finally, NO, I've got no intention of running my unsupported version of DW as a tool; should a need for such arise I'll buy the upgrade.
