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:
- 2026-07-10 12:17:19
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/7d8e03caa112752c2bf8c24850990232ca37fd56 More shenanigans with scrambled sectors, fixes some CD-i dumps.]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-07-09 20:58:23
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/f2dd052c7d4acfa5a61bf4328329d203ee953f06 Improve sector error handling for OmniDrive, adding validation for sy…]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-07-09 20:21:32
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/8a072b8d379989d8727051ac44757e0e589f6ed0 Add more error recovery logic for OmniDrive.]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-07-09 18:56:54
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/5a2ce5d827dda2e35bf3dacd0737d233334d6bc8 Fix offset when trimming bad sectors with OmniDrive.]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-07-09 18:56:36
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/e9fab8ae3186e8d33ecdd87109481ad0559f9eca Ensure data sectors are processed as such when dumped with OmniDrive.]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia