System frozen after SD puts it to sleep...

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Originally Posted by dnanian

It certainly sounds like it was done, yes. But something on the system started to have trouble, likely because of the extensive I/O, which is why I asked about AntiVirus. You might want to give it another try to see if it happens again.

(I'd also add the backup drive to the Spotlight Preference Pane's "Privacy" tab to prevent it from being indexed by Spotlight.)

Ok done (adding it to the Privacy list). I noticed that the copying process last night included references to restoring Spotlight state or something to that effect on the Lacie drive.