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10.5: Disable Spotlight during Time Machine backups
Authored by: matzh on Nov 01, '08 01:14:24PM

Thanks for all the hints and comments.
Of those who got it back to work or who can add the backup volume to the privacy list, is anyone using this particular Backup Disk: "WD Mybook World Edition" with Firmware 02.00.18?
I had been trying for the longest time to fiddle with the .Spotlight-V100 directory of that drive, deleting it to have spotlight rebuild it, using the mdutil framework etc. It showed, in general, very odd behaviour in the sense that indexing could not be enabled or disabled.
I also cannot drack and drop it. It gives me an "unknown error" when I try.
@drmacnut: I can browse through my older backups without much problem. It takes some time, for particular dates to refresh in the finder window, but this is not surprising, as I have my Mybook now access the backup over the WLAN.
I will try to check the sparesbundle (although I did and it was o.k.). It will not let me check the mounted Backup Disk, though (The error is an invalid B-tree node and that means that the disk is in use, I think). If I get any results that allow me to leave spotlight turned on, I will post it here.



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