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:
- 2026-07-11 16:10:00
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/0a7a714fa51db8ce1461530de4ab37e7579548da Add more error reporting when dumping with OmniDrive.]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-07-11 15:35:44
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/87c352a595daa64849bd2d0f0d52af4a0e14b031 Do not add inter-session lead-out sectors to errors in OmniDrive dumps.]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-07-11 14:54:31
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/e689944da90aa902dd89bb2672bee1f2ad2a3323 Do not put un-crossed lead-out sector as errored sectors in OmniDrive…]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-07-11 13:11:04
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/91dcbadc560895e0cfe2a45112df773d62f9eb69 Update to libaaruformat alpha 42.]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-07-11 03:24:39
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/44108fc8ca1caa4dcdd6b58d1d7a17f829517934 Add long sectors option for image checksum command.]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia