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:

2026-07-11 03:24:39

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/44108fc8ca1caa4dcdd6b58d1d7a17f829517934 Add long sectors option for image checksum command.]

by claunia https://github.com/claunia

2026-07-11 01:31:19

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/5678540445d8fc7fa818bc90d27d72c9f1cfa8dd When converting edge sectors accept NoData as not dumped.]

by claunia https://github.com/claunia

2026-07-10 12:17:19

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/7d8e03caa112752c2bf8c24850990232ca37fd56 More shenanigans with scrambled sectors, fixes some CD-i dumps.]

by claunia https://github.com/claunia

2026-07-09 20:58:23

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/f2dd052c7d4acfa5a61bf4328329d203ee953f06 Improve sector error handling for OmniDrive, adding validation for sy…]

by claunia https://github.com/claunia

2026-07-09 20:21:32

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/8a072b8d379989d8727051ac44757e0e589f6ed0 Add more error recovery logic for OmniDrive.]

by claunia https://github.com/claunia