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:

2024-11-10 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

2024-10-26 03:57:48

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/3d8ba7df385a43fccfee5b16cb90532197b8931d Update to .NET 9.0-rc.2]

by claunia https://github.com/claunia

2024-10-20 00:19:02

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/1c920589796ce76309a72c538c11cb4c8edeae89 Register the flux components so they build]

by FakeShemp https://github.com/FakeShemp

2024-10-20 00:17:54

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/d59012cd04203ec747d53ec869bd9effb0b7db62 Make Kreon SCSI CDB10 for libata]

by Deterous https://github.com/Deterous

2024-10-20 00:17:03

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/99561e4d21a39429d1b4017d7e3475bfdb195367 Add HL-DT-ST raw DVD read to device report (#848)]

by FakeShemp https://github.com/FakeShemp