Eject usb disk after Timemachine backup done! But SpotLight prevent!

Hi, all
OS: 10.8.2
How can I disable Spotlight indexing the Timemachine volume ?
After I backup with TimeMachine, I can't eject the usb disk because the SpotLight(mds daemon) is indexing on the usb disk, How Can I disable this. I don't want to plug in my usb disk all the way I am using the macbook pro. And I don't want to completely disable spotlight.
I have try mdutil -i off -d /Volumes/TimeMachineV1
but it failed, says can't disabled on the tm volume, ***?!

I would just let the indexing complete - it will stop indexing with the drive disconnected and begin indexing again when the drive is connected. It may take a couple of hours or more to fully index the drive the first time but it should be easy going after the drive is first indexed.
I'd just wait it out - it shouldn't take too long.
Clinton

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