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== Description ==
 
== Description ==
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DiscImageChef is a tool designed to manage disc images created from any kind of media (optical, block, etc).
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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 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.
  
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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 comsuption.
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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.
 
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.
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This tool used to be called "DiscImageChef".
  
 
== User Experiences ==
 
== User Experiences ==
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https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=36078
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*https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=36078
  
 
== Development Activity ==
 
== Development Activity ==
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The tool is LGPL for the data portions and GPL for the user interface with all development visible in https://github.com/claunia/DiscImageChef
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The tool is LGPL for the data portions and GPL for the user interface with all development.
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All development activity is visible on GitHub: https://github.com/aaru-dps/Aaru
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=== Release Feed ===
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Below the last 3 release feeds:
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<rss max=3>https://github.com/aaru-dps/Aaru/releases.atom</rss>
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=== Activity Feed ===
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Below the last 5 commits:
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<rss max=5>https://github.com/aaru-dps/Aaru/commits/devel.atom</rss>

Latest revision as of 16:08, 18 November 2021



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

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:

2026-01-06 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
2025-12-22 12:35:37
[tag:github.com,2008:Repository/18923203/v6.0.0-alpha.16 v6.0.0 Alpha 16]
by claunia


Activity Feed

Below the last 5 commits:

2026-01-19 09:40:22
[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/c9404499e73f5ffa10e0b1db881bfafab7b9dbc3 Add 'metadata-schema' command to generate JSON schema for Aaru metada…]
by claunia https://github.com/claunia
2026-01-14 16:46:46
[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/f87a48aadd9badb2eeb4fe3618b8c5d0d934d2e7 Escape markup in CD-Text logging to prevent formatting issues]
by claunia https://github.com/claunia
2026-01-14 16:26:59
[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/7343de955812681f64ef0206ebe484ee9d2b3bd2 Correct processing of headerless CD-Text coming from images, in image…]
by claunia https://github.com/claunia
2026-01-13 12:54:22
[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/0bec3941666bb8a07b7e4e56b504ec6b61757eae Only re-read pregap sectors that belong to track type changes.]
by claunia https://github.com/claunia
2026-01-13 12:53:51
[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/f26e57bf83e75383777a994b15ee4c2bcd11be30 Bump development version.]
by claunia https://github.com/claunia

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