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:
- 2026-05-01 23:56:27
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/b5da187778bb37ebc2c3b29d1be40ebbdbdac46e Merge pull request #936 from aaru-dps/fakeshemp/fix-blocks-to-read]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-05-01 23:55:45
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/223ee0980699cf34877a2489503b3ffa5a962caf Merge pull request #935 from aaru-dps/fakeshemp/flux-fix]
- by claunia https://github.com/claunia
- 2026-05-01 08:46:11
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/666ae17ebd8855b2987afa5e1313e0b54a7d340a Use ternary]
- by FakeShemp https://github.com/FakeShemp
- 2026-05-01 07:21:07
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/5ac8231b6a9210d71cd8c137f3e4f7d51ddb11e5 Return blocksToRead if omnidrive and not nintendo disc]
- by sakcheen@gamil.com
- 2026-04-27 18:07:42
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/4e1362a536309a18c43e7d84f953157cb844660b Add aaruformat error enums]
- by sakcheen@gamil.com