The one thing I'm scratching my head about, and regret not having asked Mike about, is how Migration Assistant is dealing with this, and can it perhaps be used in place of CCC for some necessary functionality?
How Migration Assistant deals with "it" is easy, it only deals with Data volume items so there is no conflict with either the boot snapshot or the system volume. That does bring up an interesting possibility. Instead of using a clone utility such as SD or CCC, why not boot the target drive then run Migration Assistant to get the desired content from the source drive or even Time Machine? No third party software needed and much more flexibility in what is cloned. The only downside being it would be a manual process and not automated, but even that might be solvable with Automator and/or Apple Script!
If we knew what it was we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
