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:
- 2026-04-24 09:58:43
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/4a0729715a779976865abca51681ea3a8afb862a Fix (once and for all I hope) volume parameter in extract and list fi…]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-04-24 09:58:13
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/cb6db1f714ef13654e092508a52372492df97a31 [UDF] Fix continuation extents.]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-04-22 11:38:27
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/a57ad7c20ac4b996048ca569043d2d3ce3a39e6c [Sidecar] Filter out null values from files and directories before so…]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-04-22 10:02:14
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/a9454e7d43ce6eeabf446b22d3b6bf878ffcb5a4 Downgrade Avalonia.Controls.DataGrid package to version 12.0.0]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-04-22 09:58:57
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/0d5b1b294bef98153c89bf7c9d65fb562fa1e2bd Update Sentry and Sentry.Serilog packages to version 6.4.1]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia