Aaru Data Preservation Suite
Description
Aaru is a tool designed to manage disc images created from any kind of media (optical, block, etc).
It can dump media from CD, DVD and Blu-ray drives (aka optical media), as well as almost any storage device that connects via SCSI, ATA, SATA, USB or FireWire.
It can also read and analyze several disk image formats from different manufacturers, for checksumming, comparison (even between different formats), or creating XML metadata for database consumption.
Last but not least it can recognize and identify almost all known partition table formats and file systems and show information about them, with support for accessing the files contained in those file systems getting added steadily, with a priority on archaic and uncommon filesystems, being the first software able to read the Lisa filesystem after its original operating system was deprecated.
This tool used to be called "DiscImageChef".
User Experiences
Development Activity
The tool is LGPL for the data portions and GPL for the user interface with all development. All development activity is visible on GitHub: https://github.com/aaru-dps/Aaru
Release Feed
Below the last 3 release feeds:
- 2026-07-15 21:31:09
- [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/18923203/v6.0.0-beta.1 v6.0.0 Beta 1]
- by claunia
- 2026-03-11 02:39:05
- [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/18923203/v6.0.0-alpha.19 v6.0.0-alpha.19]
- by claunia
- 2026-02-14 02:51:39
- [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/18923203/v5.4.2 5.4.2 LTS]
- by claunia
Activity Feed
Below the last 5 commits:
- 2026-07-27 19:12:16
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/5595a79f636887201e9c8cb763a14dde0cb63927 [ZZZRawImage] Set sector size on read long for correct seeking.]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-07-27 19:09:23
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/2ea7ab030da520a050d8f3964f265a3cd94a2768 [ZZZRawImage] Fix sector reconstruction using wrong sector numbering.]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-07-26 23:19:39
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/bc7a0caa582c442612088ee0754ada4f7815654f [ZZZImage] Add support for returning long sectors from 2048-bps ISO i…]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-07-24 09:22:25
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/d5761d1b045d61052fa7dc7b7d1e66fe2c72dfd4 Fix resume sidecar not being found in analyze command.]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-07-24 08:45:07
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/b81cc9e9c9bfc05cf8e977cdf4251ee5b9b8d27a Add ignore sector not found option to improve error handling during i…]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia