Spotlight? and Testing?

[tuni]

Now I've done 2 backups (the 2nd one is a Smart backup) - am I experienced yet?

I see in a previous thread mention of Spotlight status - I don't understand what I should be looking for in Spotlight. When I connect my LaCie drive, I see both my partitions on my desktop. When I go to Spotlight they are there too; it seems that my cloned info appears to be there -

1.how do I test it to see if everything is cloned?
2. What should/should not be available through Spotlight obviously I'm a bit confused at this point.

thx