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:
- 2025-11-21 01:16:38
- [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/18923203/v6.0.0-alpha15.1 v6.0.0-alpha15.1]
- by claunia
- 2025-11-21 01:52:34
- [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/18923203/v6.0.0-alpha.15.1 v6.0.0-alpha.15.1]
- by claunia
- 2025-11-21 00:29:37
- [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/18923203/v6.0.0-alpha.15 v6.0.0-alpha.15]
- by claunia
Activity Feed
Below the last 5 commits:
- 2025-12-16 10:37:43
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/4c2098410e79cb831ff81ce9069531144c921ff2 Add SVG icons for dump and scan buttons in DeviceView.axaml for impro…]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2025-12-16 10:03:03
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/ba2be66c7347af75223b017c3366c2f48ebf72eb Add icons to TabItem headers in DeviceView.axaml for enhanced visual …]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2025-12-16 09:24:39
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/4e4ce8e313945271380b2198da639782fc2b07b9 Remove margin from DataGrid in DeviceList.axaml for improved layout]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2025-12-16 09:19:37
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/5d98cc118a3c9cac7feb71c080be1cdc408544b4 Add alternating row colors and hover effects to DataGrid in DeviceLis…]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2025-12-16 09:19:14
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/2517335bf76831142c2c44caa30cc0280fb45c13 Update background color for alternating DataGrid rows in multiple XAM…]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia