ML Server: Time Machine   Spotlight = freeze???

Hi there!
I encountered a pretty annoying issue:
running a fresh/clean installed OS X ML Server (Mac Mini i7, 16GB RAM), imported OD, FileShared, Collaboration (Wiki, Calendars, Addresses, etc.) from an older Mac Mini SL Server, configured Time Machine for full backups (no excludes except of removable drives/media)...
It happens pretty often, that Time Machine is backing up the server (FileShares are pretty big) and consumes up to 90% CPU... AND IN THAT TIME mds and md_woker are starting to do some tasks and are also consuming 90>100% CPU... After some minutes, the while system is inaccessible... neither remote (ScreenSharing) nor directly on the system (screen and keyboard).
All I can do then is force power off the system and boot it again.
The mentioned combination appears up to 5 times a day... this is really annoying due to tha fact that we attached some external (Linux-) Servers to the OD and when the ML Server freezes, some applications can not be used .....
What i already tried:
- clean re-install the server and re-importing the data (no migation, no migration-assistant, copy and paste the data from SL to ML machines)
- disable Spotlight (added the full disk to the provacy tab, mdutil -a -i off)
- clean install to another server (2nd Mac Mini i7, 16GB RAM)
But the issue still exists....
I write a small bash script which restarts the server every morning, but the result is still not propely working.... sometimes it is enough to restart the sever once.. sometime i need to restart it up to 5 times a day.
Any hint, tip, solution?
And it is NO SOLUTION to DISABLE the BACKUP
Regards,

Step 1
If you have more than one user account, this step must be carried out as an administrator.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
syslog -F bsd -k Sender mdworker -o -k Sender mds | grep -v Norm | tail | awk '/:/{$4=""; $5=""};1' | pbcopy
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window by pressing the key combination command-V. I've tested these instructions only with the Safari web browser. If you use another browser, you may have to press the return key after pasting.
The command may take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign ($) to appear.
The output of the command will be automatically copied to the Clipboard. If the command produced no output, the Clipboard will be empty. Paste into a reply to this message.  
The Terminal window doesn't show the output. Please don't copy anything from there.
If any personal information appears in the output, anonymize before posting, but don’t remove the context.
Step 2
Enter the following command as in Step 1 and post the output:
mdutil -as 2>&- | pbcopy
You can then quit Terminal.  
Step 3
Launch the Console application in the same way you launched Terminal. In the Console window, look under the heading DIAGNOSTIC AND USAGE INFORMATION on the left for crash reports related to Spotlight. If you don't see that heading, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar. A Spotlight crash report has a name beginning in "mds" or "mdworker" and ending in ".crash". Select the most recent such report, if any, from the System and User subcategories and post the entire contents — the text, please, not a screenshot. In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.)
Please don’t post any other kind of diagnostic report, such as hang logs — they're very long and not helpful.

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