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:
- 2026-01-06 17:12:48
- [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/18923203/v6.0.0-alpha.18 v6.0.0-alpha.18]
- by claunia
- 2025-12-26 11:20:19
- [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/18923203/v6.0.0-alpha.17 v6.0.0 Alpha 17]
- by claunia
- 2025-12-22 12:35:37
- [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/18923203/v6.0.0-alpha.16 v6.0.0 Alpha 16]
- by claunia
Activity Feed
Below the last 5 commits:
- 2026-01-28 11:04:04
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/e729a0f3dc354c4f75fca2a2f211ed94252c4675 Merge pull request #898 from aaru-dps/fakeshemp/divide-by-zero]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-01-24 11:03:31
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/3d4ae298d5544c961ac76106fbe26c6274facefd Solve divide by zero error]
- by sakcheen@gamil.com
- 2026-01-19 09:40:22
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/c9404499e73f5ffa10e0b1db881bfafab7b9dbc3 Add 'metadata-schema' command to generate JSON schema for Aaru metada…]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-01-14 16:46:46
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/f87a48aadd9badb2eeb4fe3618b8c5d0d934d2e7 Escape markup in CD-Text logging to prevent formatting issues]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-01-14 16:26:59
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/7343de955812681f64ef0206ebe484ee9d2b3bd2 Correct processing of headerless CD-Text coming from images, in image…]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia