Crawl Status Paused for External Request

There is a known issue with the Symantec Backup of Sharepoint 2010 foundation which causes the search crawl to be paused but does not resume it. Read about it.

Rather than manually restarting the crawls I wrote a quick script to do it instead.

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell

$searchapp = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication "Search Service Application"
$searchapp.resume()

Now the crawler is restarted every night after the backup and I no longer have to remember to do it in the morning.