virt-sparsify --compress

After updating & upgrading system image get larger and larger. Usually I use

virt-sparsify --in-place Whonix-Workstation.qcow2

But sometimes I want to run
virt-sparsify --compress Whonix-Workstation.qcow2 New-Workstation.qcow

Is it safe to use virt-sparsify --compress ?
It won’t break any of Whonix security or stuff like that ?
I’m new to KVM