Lightroom 5.7 Reports that catalog running out of space. Drive has 185GB free.

I tend to leave Lightroom running in the background for days sometimes, allowing my Windows 7 Pro 64-bit system to sleep. The program is installed on a 240 GB SSD with 139GB free.  The catalog is kept on a HDD partition of 230GB, that also contains a recent backup of several photo files, but with 185GB free.  Looking through the discussions, I saw a comment that using CrashPlan in auto mode can cause this error message to come up, and I do run it that way. I know there's a problem in Windows with CrashPlan requesting VolumeShadowServices, but the backups are still being made and are accurate, so I haven't spent much time trying to resolve this.
When the catalog message shows up, it goes away and I can continue working. However, I usually stop and restart Lightroom.  No change is seen in the space allocation on the hard drives. Is this a bug with Lightroom?

Geoff -
Although you're correct about the LR catalog, changing the backup app (CrashPlan) to no longer backup the catalog defeats at least part of my purpose.  As would making it a manual backup. The best backups are those done without any further action needed on my part.
However, I did read a bit more about CrashPlan, and have changed it to not backup currently open files. It will check every hour and see if the file has been updated but is no longer open, and then back it up. This should fix the Volsnap and VSS errors on Win 7.
The question remains as to whether it will keep the LR catalog message from occurring.  I am assuming that it's related to backups, but cannot say for sure at this point.  I'll leave it open (against ManiacJoe's rec) and see if this still occurs.

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