Using Blu-Ray disks for data backup.
by taylorkh from LinuxQuestions.org on (#58TRA)
I wish Internet search engines had a cutoff date option. I have searched on this topic and essentially all of the results are out of date (and thus of little value.) On this forum I found a thread from 2017 regarding CentOS 6 - again not helpful. Here is what I am after...
For years I used CD and later DVD media for data backup. It got to the point that is was cheaper to setup a server with mirrored hard drives. Also a lot more convenient. I see that there are now BD disks with a capacity of 50 GB which are available for a couple of $ US. This might be handy for some more important data which I wish to store off site. BD writers are also inexpensive and would appear to work in a Linux machine. The question is software.
I have for years used k3b for writing DVDs. However, it does not support BD as best I can tell. My searching brought up a lot of discussion about licensing issues related to BD - not clear if that had to do with copyrighted movies, encryption etc. or something about the BD format itself. I just want to burn my data to BD media. Can anyone clue me in to what software might be a good choice? I run CentOS 7 and Ubuntu 20.04 mostly.
TIA,
Ken
For years I used CD and later DVD media for data backup. It got to the point that is was cheaper to setup a server with mirrored hard drives. Also a lot more convenient. I see that there are now BD disks with a capacity of 50 GB which are available for a couple of $ US. This might be handy for some more important data which I wish to store off site. BD writers are also inexpensive and would appear to work in a Linux machine. The question is software.
I have for years used k3b for writing DVDs. However, it does not support BD as best I can tell. My searching brought up a lot of discussion about licensing issues related to BD - not clear if that had to do with copyrighted movies, encryption etc. or something about the BD format itself. I just want to burn my data to BD media. Can anyone clue me in to what software might be a good choice? I run CentOS 7 and Ubuntu 20.04 mostly.
TIA,
Ken