Acronis True Image 2018: "Fallback to work without wan optimizator" message in logs

Symptoms

During the backup of your computer or other operation you see the following message in logs:

Fallback to work without wan optimizator. Reason: Switch Count exceeded

Operation completes successfully.

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Cause

This is an internal service message that can be safely ignored.

Solution

This message can be safely ignored, as it does not affect the backup result.

As a workaround, to remove this message, go to Backup Options -> Advanced -> Performance and network and switch the Network connection transfer rate from Maximum to Optimal