10.4: Workaround for a Spotlight - Retrospect 6 conflict

Aug 10, '05 09:21:00AM

Contributed by: Norm Nager

Tiger only hintTiger-compatible versions of Retrospect up through 6.0.212 with Driver Update 6.4.102 have run into problems in duplicating and backing up Spotlight-indexed volumes.

EMC/Dantz tech support's workaround is to use two exclusion selectors in scripts or commands for duplicating/cloning and for backing up:

  1. Exclude .Spotlight-V100 as a file.
  2. Exclude .Spotlight-V100 as an enclosing folder
With these two exclusions, backups and duplicates should work fine...

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