MAC Stuff

So I finally broke down and did 2 things:

• I bought a MAC - Specifically a MAC mini
• I bough a backup server - an HP Smart media server

Cool thing about the media server is will do full backups of both windows and MAC systems, allow a "bare metal" restore.

This morning though, I saw that my CPU was way up, the last backup failed, and my CPU was off the charts. Looking around I found that it was an MDS and MDSworker process. It seems spotlight (the MAC background search tool) was indexing the backup server.

So I had to go in and remove the backup server from the spotlight indexing in the system setting panel. This was not that tough a job, but to a new Mac guy - it was a surprise.