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:
- 2026-07-06 18:09:27
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/1793f3e43f3dfd9c87ace4702a8a86f1ce5f2baf Refactor XGD dumping and corrected L1 video dumping, now it generates…]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-07-06 18:08:31
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/898c22c3e63d3c69c5584e4127465adec2c5de46 Refactor SecuritySector struct to adjust Unknown11 size and add Range…]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-07-06 03:39:22
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/66f0161638959af43b5b75db73ccf0d822265dc4 Add specific OmniDrive code for CD-i Ready handling and deactivate it…]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-07-06 02:12:06
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/c91123949ac3c6b7dc9e87fa80af2b1a46eb4640 Add error detection and possible correction when dumping CD-i Ready.]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-07-05 23:02:29
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/056518bfd6053eecc2cdefbfb7647114d5477ef4 On error correcting CD sectors with OmniDrive try to get C2 pointers …]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia