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:

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:

2026-03-11 02:40:06

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/63bfc03870e79c937903e1b13d94a6703c5951c4 Split release from devel.]

by claunia https://github.com/claunia

2026-03-11 02:20:16

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/1647143faf86b17c8a8a4a7f9727f9f995d4c21d Bump version to v6.0.0-alpha.19]

by claunia https://github.com/claunia

2026-03-11 00:41:45

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/596b2273b32a196f094b1d7d953ff801f00ea854 Updated changelog.]

by claunia https://github.com/claunia

2026-03-10 22:15:34

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/951fe7dc3f12225a4ddaf122fe43be5a36ead86a UNIX File System 2 is now a fully readable file system.]

by claunia https://github.com/claunia

2026-03-10 22:14:51

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/d4203a3cd14e59edb4189bbbf19a53015da0e9e0 UNIX file system is now a fully readable filesystem.]

by claunia https://github.com/claunia