How to prevent Spotlight from Indexing Backup Drives?

[mschmitt]

Originally Posted by dnanian

If you use the Privacy tab, it should work properly. Remember: indexing off is not the same as privacy: privacy also avoids searching the drive.

But that is just the problem... I want to be able to search the drive with Find. I just don't want Spotlight to index it.

So I followed the instructions at this site: http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/stopspotlightindex.html

I'm going to try the disable_spotlight post backup shell script and see how that works for me.