Aaru Data Preservation Suite

Media dump software and disc image manager
Homepage:	https://aaru.app/
Source Code:	https://github.com/aaru-dps/Aaru
License:	GPL and LGPL
Platforms:	Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD
Function:	Backup,Disk Imaging,Metadata Extraction
Content type:	Disk Image,Software

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

• https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=36078

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:

2022-12-23 17:44:12

[tag:github.com,2008:Repository/18923203/v6.0.0-alpha9 v6.0.0 Alpha 9]

by claunia

2022-12-23 14:10:42

[tag:github.com,2008:Repository/18923203/v5.3.2 5.3.2 LTS]

by claunia

2022-12-14 12:07:16

[tag:github.com,2008:Repository/18923203/v5.3.2-rc2 5.3.2-rc2]

by claunia

Activity Feed

Below the last 5 commits:

2024-12-19 10:45:18

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/5863664dbf626677591c4d5280feb7ec925eed8d Update copyright year.]

by claunia https://github.com/claunia

2024-12-19 08:56:01

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/57f3616e1fc46bb88fc6947ed3863b6d032e38f8 Update to .NET 9 dependencies.]

by claunia https://github.com/claunia

2024-11-27 14:44:41

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/1f164d9c7513c8293c0c385d20e7ad83831ad2d4 [Aaru.Generators] Enhance project properties.]

by claunia https://github.com/claunia

2024-11-27 14:40:49

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/7d3699c645fe120e5cd82bed917026ce86255a08 Update Rider project files.]

by claunia https://github.com/claunia

2024-11-10 16:13:48

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/f061e8b804bc2507f9f788ea87d50c44c72fe1b9 [Common types] Add more information for SyQuest QPAK (SQ100, SQ200 an…]

by claunia https://github.com/claunia