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Archive to USB Attached Blu-Ray Burner
All - Now we have 128GB write-once blu-ray discs and burners in the market (BDXL, BD-R 3.0) I am thinking this could be a good long term archive solution for the ReadyNAS.
But I've search the forum and elsewhere and not seen anyone reporting success archiving content from a ReadyNAS to USB 3.0 attached blu-ray burner.
Anyone care to share their experience?
What drivers on the ReadyNAS required to do the burning? Any limitations? Is Shell Access required or is there a plug-in for a user friendly UI? What burner hardware worked for you?
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Hi ReadyNASUser,
I haven't tried this myself. Let's wait to hear some suggestions or feedback from other community members and see if they have success using a Blu-Ray Burner on the NAS to backup data. As far as I know,the USB ports only supports UPS and External USB storage devices.
Kind regards,BrianL
NETGEARThere may be a way to do this with shell access, but you should carefully consider the implications of enabling shell access before you do that.
It's not something we would support doing.
I understand the implications of Shell Access (if you check my earlier posts to the forum before it moved to this new wizzy platform)...
I imagine this will be an occasional thing - once every 8-18 minths perhaps - and as with all Shell Access would ensure full backup off the NAS before doing it. As an example when I get a new laptop, once I've switched over I don't need old timemachine files "on-line" on the NAS - but would like to keep a copy - and those files can get bigger than removeable media other than BluRay.
How could I learn how to do Archive to USB Attached Blu-Ray Burner?
I haven't tried this myself but I think it should be possible. Though you may have to build kernel modules etc. using the GPL. It may be quite difficult even if it is possible.
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