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:
- 2026-04-19 23:28:20
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/5cdd000e30d0f81eb2ee403888d1913ee34487ba Refactor filesystem tests to use FluentAssertions for improved readab…]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-04-19 23:28:08
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/0f9357118ccadf042b416b1e07bf9500107dc28b [sysvfs] Try COHERENT filesystems with volume name. Fixes #771]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-04-19 22:55:28
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/cf6f9d43d3ece5b222f81725a13a9cf87ad417e4 Add error handling for null filesystem and localize error message. Fi…]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-04-19 22:22:22
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/5c5b8c4955cfdff52019975da1be5ae4231fac56 Add support for MagicISO UIF disc images. Fixes #258]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-04-19 21:19:48
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/d38b539148d5909c127694c393966f7888cf6e1f [UDIF] Implement LZH support.]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia