Acronis True Image 2019 on Mac: Cloning fails with "Neither Core Storage not APFS containers were found on the source disk"

Symptoms

What exactly happens when the problem arises.

1) You attempt to clone a disk on your Mac using a Fusion drive as a destination

2) Cloning fails with the following message:

Neither Core Storage nor APFS containers were found on the source disk

Cause

Your source drive has HFS/HFS+ file system. Fusion drives do not support HFS/HFS+ file systems