How do I ignore scanning my Time capsule?

I use time machine without this problem.  Go to preferences; for on access scanning simply exclude your backup drive.  For on demand scanning, just open the console (from the icon in the menu bar, select "open Sophos Anti-Virus).  Create a a custom scan of your internal hard disk (if that is what you want to scan), and then just use custom scan.  The software will then  not attempt to scan external hard disks. 

I assume that your backup drive (Time Machine)  is connected directly to USB or Firewire.  

My Time Capsule  is in another room, and is connected through ethernet.

Despote trying EVERYTHING that I can think of, it ALWAYS scans the 7.7 million files that it finds on y computer AND my Time Capsule.

I suspect that this is a bug, for a configuration that Sophos did not test (having a Tome Capsule connected over ethernet.

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inbeijing wrote:

I use time machine without this problem.  Go to preferences; for on access scanning simply exclude your backup drive.  For on demand scanning, just open the console (from the icon in the menu bar, select "open Sophos Anti-Virus).  Create a a custom scan of your internal hard disk (if that is what you want to scan), and then just use custom scan.  The software will then  not attempt to scan external hard disks. 

I assume that your backup drive (Time Machine)  is connected directly to USB or Firewire.  

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This makes no sense...

A) Why would preferences for "on-access scanning effect a scan of local drives?  

B) from your description, this exclusion does NOT effect the scan of local drives.

But if the user has not tried it I suggest:

1.  Excluding Time Machine for on access scanning.  The exclusion can be local, or networked (but I have never needed it for network drives"

2.  Creating a "Custom Scan" for on demand scans, which in my case means my internal disk.

If Sophos is scanning a networked drive when being asked to scan only  local drives  -- well that is a bug.  Since it does not happen to me (I have both local and networked hard drives running Time Machine)  I thought  it might be a simple  preference problem.  I do not claim to be an expert, and I am only attempting to help because I know the terminology can be confusing.

I am certainly not attempting to confuse anyone further!

  Cheers. 

Just a question.  When you say that Sophos is scanning automatically, do you mean it is doing a full scan (on demand) without you requesting the software to do this?  That would be a bug in itself.

If you are selecting "scan local" drives (on demand scanning) and it is scanning your network drive, it is possible that for some reason Sophos is seeing that drive as local.  However,  I believe that creating a Custom Scan and specifying only your local disk (or whatever) might solve the problem. If I select "local scan" from the menu, it Sophos does scan my Firewire, Time Machine backup.  And it is maddeningly slow;  over a network, it would take forever. So I just use my "custom scan" setting, which as I said just includes my internal disk.