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:
- 2026-03-11 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
- 2026-03-11 17:58:24
- [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/18923203/v6.0.0-alpha.18 v6.0.0 Alpha 18]
- by claunia
Activity Feed
Below the last 5 commits:
- 2026-03-29 13:23:36
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/382cb59a685fbc429fc38642ba6ba927abb8f8a1 [BeFS] Handle volumes residing in misaligned partitions in optical me…]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-03-29 12:08:49
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/f08d1304b5ab2859b74882978f22447fa7a87007 [ADFS] Replace '/' for '.'.]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-03-29 12:08:24
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/24e78635ff246780ec93e63077ffb743cd0f776a [ADFS] Fix big directory parsing.]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-03-29 11:09:21
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/1bc3f6ea098a403b90f24f91b661026948c414ab [ADFS] Fix superblock layout and alignment.]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-03-27 23:03:27
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/8eb9f91a836af15c47484f2f303e1b24bca5cb68 Add 'write-metadata' command to handle metadata writing for AaruForma…]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia