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I'm using Fedora v32. The only support I could find for Blu-ray burners on Linux is either xfburn or growisofs. I'd like to add files for backup and then burn it. When I tried using xfburn and selecting "Pioneer BDR-XD07B" under "Burning device", after adding the files to be saved, I get:

Failed to unmount 'Blank DS-R Disc'. Drive cannot be used for burning.

Couldn't find an example of growisofs adding files to be burned then burning the disc. I assume I'll need to use mkisofs to make an ISO file with the data files in it then burning the Blu-ray disc with that ISO?

I looked for Linux drivers for the Pioneer BDR-XD07B but found only Windows and MacOS drivers.

Suggestions?

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  • Why don't you use cdrecord/mkisofs? cdrecord supports Bluray since 2007 - it is the first OSS program to support Bluray. – schily Sep 11 '20 at 08:33
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    Does this answer your question? [Best practices for writing Blu-Ray discs on Linux](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/9562/best-practices-for-writing-blu-ray-discs-on-linux) – user598527 Aug 11 '23 at 14:26

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assuming that your drive is represented as /dev/sr0 and that you want to put a copy of directory /home/thomas/projects onto a blank or appendable medium as /projects you could do:

xorriso -for_backup -dev /dev/sr0 -map /home/thomas/projects /projects

More -map source target commands can be added to this run. The medium will stay appendable (unless it is a DVD-R DL or a fastly blanked DVD-RW). So you could do more of these runs later.

Checkread all backup sessions and compare with the recorded MD5 sums by:

xorriso -for_backup -indev /dev/sr0 -check_media --

or the most recent session by

xorriso -for_backup -indev /dev/sr0 -check_md5 FAILURE --

My own backups are done like in the example "Incremental backup of a few directory trees" in https://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/man_1_xorriso.html#EXAMPLES

xorriso \
  -abort_on FATAL \
  -for_backup -disk_dev_ino on \
  -assert_volid 'PROJECTS_MAIL_*' FATAL \
  -dev /dev/sr0 \
  -volid PROJECTS_MAIL_"$(date '+%Y_%m_%d_%H%M%S')" \
  -not_leaf '*.o' -not_leaf '*.swp' \
  -update_r /home/thomas/projects /projects \
  -update_r /home/thomas/personal_mail /personal_mail \
  -commit -toc -check_md5 FAILURE -- -eject all

I mainly use BD-R, BD-RE, and DVD+RW media. Be aware that many drives restrict BD-R to 128 sessions. (But not ASUS BW-16D1HT with firmware revision 1.01. It does more than 255 sessions on BD-R.)

Have a nice day :)

Thomas

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