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:
- 2026-01-07 01:42:00
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/86bc57b4bd9fc9670389251fa0e9562ec8d40ec8 Disable default calculation of SpamSum on sidecar creation.devel]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-01-06 17:30:38
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/d51b1733aae59728a5450b21a272a0f14ea49e71 Split release from devel.]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-01-06 17:12:48
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/8c75bceb70225ed71f72e988f9d83b11f17ab742 Bump version to 6.0.0-alpha.18]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-01-06 16:12:26
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/89751bacede9292e2b6fcc93d7d20eb4601dc95e Update changelog.]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-01-06 16:05:37
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/7ad1590fdd7cc9955ca6ef90e74fd03e3e9bf8f0 Update libaaruformat package version to 1.0.0-alpha.30]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia