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:
- 2026-07-30 23:33:45
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/428760f95bdfb4be0eaa59825f6def2330d22719 Merge pull request #950 from gmipf/crash-report-consent]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-07-30 19:56:39
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/c8b81fd22e1629b56354ad06c7a41815061fe5cb Ask existing users for crash-report consent once, guarded to a terminal]
- by gmipf https://github.com/gmipf
- 2026-07-29 13:17:54
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/753154d405c75f0fa34d4ad277b073e88c63bc09 Merge pull request #951 from HeroponRikiBestest/dpmTry3]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-07-29 12:53:52
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/e9b68413e6726bb3496ef0c07743b782fafe9559 [ZZZRawImage] Allow converting MODE1/2352 source images into ISO images.]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-07-29 12:52:51
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/1dd2a67add82bcbc3c10d74243f89f7b08015364 [ZZZRawImage] Fix sector size check for .512 format in Write.cs]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia