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:

2025-04-24 15:19:50

[tag:github.com,2008:Repository/18923203/v6.0.0-alpha10 v6.0.0-alpha10]

by claunia

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

Activity Feed

Below the last 5 commits:

2025-04-24 15:19:50

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/21368f00139e68586008d343e30243aeaf00bb66 Update changelog.]

by claunia https://github.com/claunia

2025-04-24 05:21:40

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/5a8de28df322d4858a293d7146a638f288fc833e Up version to 6.0.0-alpha10.]

by claunia https://github.com/claunia

2025-04-24 05:21:11

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/8ee0926210df8e3a443456b567e17ad6f319125f Set SDK to 9.0.100. SET IN STONE.]

by claunia https://github.com/claunia

2025-04-24 05:20:41

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/c18ef0e823a5c8b24737a0e1efc2dbf9507d97f5 [Database] Added migrations for Lite-On RAW DVD readings device reports.]

by claunia https://github.com/claunia

2025-04-24 05:20:18

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/de986d2692d04845f1cc966717510882fbfbaa1e [Translations] Added missing Spanish strings.]

by claunia https://github.com/claunia