Backup laptop with Clonezilla to an external Blu-ray

Question

I want to back up my Windows laptop to an external blu ray (LG BE14NU40); however, I can't get Clonezilla to recognize the blu-ray as a target.

I can see the drive show up in dmesg when I toggle the power on the blu-ray, but for some reason the blu-ray never shows up in the list of clonezilla mount options.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

• Put a blank BD-R disc into the LG Blu-ray drive
• Stick the Clonezilla Live CD in my on-board DVD player and hit F3 to get the boot menu. Then I boot from the DVD.

After Clonezilla boots...

When I see the prompt above, I toggle my blu-ray's power... but the drive won't show up.

The following dmesg demonstrates that at least the clonezilla linux kernel sees the usb hotplug event when I toggle power on the blu-ray.

user@vivid:~$ dmesg | tail -n4
[ 2911.449649] scsi 8:0:0:0: CD-RAM        HL-DT-ST BD-RE  BE14NU40 1.01 PQ: 0 
ANSI: 0
[ 2911.557873] scsi 8:0:0:0 [sr1] scsi3-mmc drive: 0x/48x writer dvd-ram cd/rw
xa/form2 cdda tray
[ 2911.558257] scsi 8:0:0:0 Atached scsi CD-ROM sr1
[ 2911.558492] scsi 8:0:0:0 Atached scsi generic sg2 type 5

QUESTION

How can force clonezilla to use this blu-ray drive as a direct backup target?

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Details:

• Laptop: MSI PE060
• Blu-ray: LG BE14NU40

I am running clonezilla vivid (stable), which is built on Ubuntu 15.0 (kernel 3.19.0-18-generic)... I see this when I boot the clonezilla iso and run a manual linux shell...

user@vivid:~$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 15.04 \n \l

user@vivid:~$ uname -a
Linux vivid 3.19.0-18-generic #18-Ubuntu SMP Tue May 19 18:31:35 UTC 2015 x86_64 
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
user@vivid:~$

Answer 1

I don't have a Blu-ray device to test with, but AFAIK this will work.

This will take a rewritable Blu-ray disc
If you have no rewritable Blu-ray discs, I think this is impossible, unless you are willing to mount a flash drive to /home/partimag for step 3 and burn the image to the Blu-ray with another computer.

1. First, verify that your Blu-ray disc is formatted with Live File System/UDF, so that files can be added/removed as though it was a flash drive.
2. Then, instead of choosing local_dev to save the image to, choose enter_shell.
3. Once in the shell, insert your Blu-ray disc, and mount it to /home/partimag, by running sudo mount /dev/sr0 /home/partimag (I'm not sure if it is sr0 for a Blu-ray...)
4. Now, type exit, and continue the cloning.
5. When the cloning is done, you should reboot or shutdown so that the Blu-ray is unmounted. Or you could go to the command line and run sudo umount /home/partimag.

P.S. I'm excited to know if this works for you. Sounds like it's been frustrating.