On Wednesday 08 July 2020 07:32:03 Michele Calgaro via trinity-users wrote:
On 2020/07/08 04:41 PM, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
I am in need of backuping quite a volume of data, so DVD's would feel like old time floppy backup. I was thinking of turning to blu-ray (M-Disc as they advertise long life).
Does anyone know if TDE's k3b can write on Blu-ray, or would I have to install KDE's (or rather some Gnome stuff?). Debian Buster here.
Thierry
Hi Thierry, we did some work recently on TDE to add some support for bluray discs, but I have no clue if it works in k3b. If you are on PSB or PTB you could give it a try and let us know.
Personally, if I need to back up lot of data (perhaps frequently) I would buy a cheap harddisk and use that as backup. IF you need extra protection you can have more than one HD and either have multiple backups or use RAID config.
Cheers Michele
I can appreciate your not wanting to mess up your TDE system with krap from KDE4/5 or Plasma, and other desktops have their problems, too. So I would install a non-TDE version of K3b only as a last resort.
It may be that you only need the blu-ray libraries. I would be glad to test this for you, but I have no blu-ray discs, and besides I have just blown my wad on buying a small collection of hard drives for extra storage and backup.
When I run "sudo apt-cache search blu-ray", the Devuan/Debian repositories only return a few items:
libbluray-bin libbluray1-dbg aacskeys dumphd libbluray-bdj libbluray-dev libbluray-doc libbluray1
also tsmuxer tsmuxergui (And I believe these last couple are just for burning films to DVD, rather than data.)
Otherwise, you might consider trying command-line, as there is no need to install anything that is non-TDE, and you are basically performing the same tasks, only without the GUI.
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/k3b-and-bluray-burning... https://wiki.debian.org/BurnCd https://www.linuxsecrets.com/2964-burning-cd-dvd-drives https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CdDvd/Burning
A couple of those links are pretty detailed, and if it is possible, they lay it out for you step-by-step.
Good luck!
Bill
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