Blu-ray working for Linux?

[Y7iiie]

I need a large capacity optical drive for backup/restore only. I started running mythTV and I am slowly filling my HDD storage with keeper media. Now, I would like to start offloading it all to something which will hold it without resorting to such as split/compression.

I see that these Blu-ray drives can hold 25 and 50 GB of media. But, as I search Google for the words "linux Blu-ray" I haven't seen anything that says definitively, Linux can power this device.

Are there drivers, archive tools, K3B, et.al. which can take care of this backup need??

I do not take part in any media rental,viewing of any DRM, MPAA, RIAA stuff. My needs are solely for data storage and replay of public TV shows.

[Finalzone]

It has been done since 2006 so it should be possible to back data on BD via K3B or other burning application.

[Demz]

does k3b support blueray? i didnt think it did

[sej7278]

nerolinux certainly does support udf 2.5 and 2.6 needed for hddvd/bluray burning, didn't think anything else did on linux....

i still think the only way to backup today's growing media needs is to another hard disk(s) as even a 50gb bluray disc ain't gonna do much to that 1tb drive that's filling up fast!

[Gödel]

K3B supports blu-ray in the upcoming 2.0 release (aimed at KDE 4.2), and also in the 1.6x alphas. Not in the versions in Fedora unfortunately. The underlying command line tools have supported blu-ray for quite a while, eg cdrecord since 2006.

You've probably found this link from your google search, it seems to imply that k3b since v.10 (and nautilus cd burner) can use dvd+rw-tools for blu-ray burning, but I haven't got a blu-ray burner to test this in fedora.

[leigh123linux]

You could use k3b-1.66.

http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-re...unstable/RPMS/

[Y7iiie]

sej7278: you are probably correct with respect to using a terabyte-sized HDD instead for backup.. I checked prices at several web-vendor sites and a 1TB drive can be found for $74, $79, $89 which is much cheaper than the prices for Blu-ray drives. I may look into assembling a cheap NAS appliance using some of these big HDDs.

thx