Clone environment - excluding transactional data

Summary:

Hi All,

I'm trying to achieve a snapshot copy, excluding the transactional data, of an application towards a target environment in order to retain the data of the target environment.

Only limited sources explicitly mentioning this, but I read that the "clone environment" functionality is supposed to exclude transactional data and only supposed to move artifacts. In reality however, I notice that data gets overwritten in the target nonetheless.

(I know that I could also use a selective artifact snapshot but this is just much more of a hassle. Also I would like to know for sure that this is expected behaviour).