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:
- 2026-04-05 11:45:09
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/23d25a47ef853263e18e29d3bfb1ba516fb937ff Merge pull request #927 from aaru-dps/fakeshemp/kryoflux]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-04-05 09:37:11
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/d6939712b60f6fa565dd64d6850261a459a508ce Remove ICK]
- by FakeShemp https://github.com/FakeShemp
- 2026-04-05 08:36:27
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/a099b2dbd3502657233ad42ed47beb0fd6a49427 remove unused variables]
- by sakcheen@gamil.com
- 2026-04-04 19:30:50
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/3a6c759bc8f5b931083919e015fde184eeaa697d [Kryoflux] Data does not have to be index aligned]
- by sakcheen@gamil.com
- 2026-04-04 19:30:50
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/7da919f601f78d85f2aa4be169332d7da09afe0d Update Kryoflux]
- by sakcheen@gamil.com