In OSs prior to Catalina, CCC could create a bootable clone of your boot volume in another volume in the same container if SIP was disabled, and a complete, but non-bootable, one if it was enabled. In Catalina, because of a negative interaction between SIP and Apple's new System/Data scheme, even a complete non-bootable clone is impossible.
In my case it is not CCC that is the culprit....
According to Mike Bombich, CCC isn't the culprit...
The reason those items are excluded from the backup task in the screenshot, though, is that the destination is a volume in the same container as the current startup disk. CCC has to exclude system files from that task, otherwise you'll run into thousands of SIP-related errors. That's new in Catalina, and I'm hoping it's a bug that Apple intends to fix. SIP protection should be limited to the current startup disk, not additional volumes in the same container.
FYI I am running CCC 5.1.15b1 (5890)....
I installed it today after reading your post; it sounds fascinating.
I can't argue with that, but do you think Apple's locking down /Apps & /Apps/Utilities so unnecessary ones can't be culled really contributes to security? (I'd love to get rid of 19 + at least 3, respectively.)
I am not sure what you are referring to. Other than some Apple Apps and Utilities that are used elsewhere in MacOS and/or other Apps I have no problem deleting apps and utilities such as Mail in MacOS
10.15.3. (Emphasis added)
Not so in
10.15.2, though. (Hmmm... I think that's the first formatted link I've ever seen.)
Apple has apparently seen the error in their ways; I guess I'm not the only one who was upset.
