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:
- 2026-06-19 15:02:15
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/0cd3b53191b4ec1eed2329f43c500f091087db72 [ISO9660] Fix when 0-length file indicates it has an extended attribu…]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-06-19 14:42:33
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/eaa6634e4c7788e53c273e77618c62bde5108419 Add test fixture for LIF filesystem.]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-06-19 14:42:06
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/4824a80744c4391ee8dd23034b4daf0e158fb495 [LIF] Add support for devices with a sector size different from 256 b…]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-06-19 14:00:22
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/cc4b91bd3c6e62535743a8ef17d4855cf300f146 Add TarV7 class for unit testing of V7 TAR archives]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-06-19 14:00:08
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/6edd8d5cf21f628e81c9e3cd4a594c4beb796ac0 Add ArchiveTest class and update Structs for archive testing]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia