@dbeato said in Error: The flush and hold writes operation on volume timed out while waiting for a release writes command.:

This might be Crashplan not supporting SQL Open files as you can see here:
https://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/4/Backup/Back_up_open_files_and_databases

Yes, we looked around to find some that weren't where they were supposed to be and might have been open. Hoping that that might end up being all that the issue was.

@Dashrender said in Tracking the origination of a shadow copy:

I suppose you could easy enough with an agent, thinking backups here.

Precisely. As the origination is the same machine and not the backup device, I guess that answers that.