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-922094/ 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