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:
- 2026-02-14 02:51:39
- [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/18923203/v5.4.2 5.4.2 LTS]
- by claunia
- 2026-01-06 17:12:48
- [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/18923203/v6.0.0-alpha.18 v6.0.0-alpha.18]
- by claunia
- 2025-12-26 11:20:19
- [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/18923203/v6.0.0-alpha.17 v6.0.0 Alpha 17]
- by claunia
Activity Feed
Below the last 5 commits:
- 2026-02-10 16:12:13
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/915e99958c250bbd290b5195bff50c1572b29812 [s5fs] Replace manual parsing with marshalling.]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-02-10 15:32:47
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/7cb65c2cf867c43bbab94d975af369e048800f6c [s5fs] Add missing on-disk structures.]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-02-08 23:45:53
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/27cdb9374518508bb7d16b046523c3cb7612b088 Squash file system is now a fully readable filesystem.]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-02-08 23:44:36
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/28a12ca322ab32950196253d2b1c5bf8daabc29e Refactor buffer parameter passing in LZO, LZVN, and XZ encoding/decod…]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-02-08 23:20:17
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/68df173c2f793e2f91d94707dc8a70bb80dd9854 Add managed fallback for XZ buffer decoding]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia