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Aaru Data Preservation Suite v6.0.0-alpha9



Aaru



Copyright © 2011-2024 Natalia Portillo 



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You can see user documentation [here](https://www.aaru.app)



Aaru is a fully featured media dump management solution. You usually know media dumps as disc images, disk images, tape

images, etc.



With Aaru you can identify a media dump, extract files from it (for supported filesystems), compare two of them, create

them from real media using the appropriate drive, create a sidecar metadata with information about the media dump, and a

lot of other features that commonly would require you to use separate applications.



To see last changes, check the [changelog](Changelog.md). To see list of pending things to do, check

the [list of issues](https://github.com/aaru-dps/Aaru/issues).



If you want to contribute in any way please read the [contributing guide](CONTRIBUTING.md).



Stable releases in [Github](https://github.com/aaru-dps/Aaru/releases).



System requirements

===================

Aaru is created using .NET 7 and can be compiled with all the major IDEs. To run it you require to use one of the stable

releases, or build it yourself.



Usage

=====



aaru.exe



And read help.



Or read the [documentation](https://www.aaru.app).



Features

========



* Identifies a disk image getting information about the disk itself and shows information about partitions and

  filesystems inside them

* Can checksum the disks (and if optical disc, separate tracks) user-data (tags and metadata coming soon)

* Can compare two disk images, even different formats, for different sectors and/or metadata

* Can list and extract contents from supported archives

* Can list and extract contents from supported filesystems

* Can read several disk image formats.

* Can read several known sector by sector formats with variable bytes per sector.

* Can read standard sector by sector copies for optical and magnetic discs with constant bytes per sector.

* Can verify sectors or disk images if supported by the underlying format

* Can dump media from ATA, ATAPI, SCSI, USB, FireWire and SDHCI drives (magnetic disks, optical discs, magnetoptical

  disks, flash devices, memory cards and tapes) to several supported image formats.

* Can convert between image formats.

* Includes an open-source archival image format with compression and deduplication.

* Can create standard open XML metadata from existing images.

* Can measure readability and speed of media (same that can be dumped, MHDD style)

* Has an online database with drive capabilities, and can report the capabilities of any drive.

* Works on any operating system and architecture where .NET Core is supported (drive access requires Windows or Linux).

* Has a graphical interface (work in progress)



Supported disk image formats (read-only)

========================================



* Apple Disk Archival/Retrieval Tool (DART)

* Apple II nibble images (NIB)

* BlindWrite 4 TOC files (.BWT/.BWI/.BWS)

* BlindWrite 5/6 TOC files (.B5T/.B5I and .B6T/.B6I)

* CopyQM

* CPCEMU Disk file and Extended Disk File

* Dave Dunfield IMD

* DiscJuggler images

* Dreamcast GDI

* HD-Copy disk images

* MAME Compressed Hunks of Data (CHD)

* Microsoft VHDX

* Nero Burning ROM (both image formats)

* Partclone disk images

* Partimage disk images

* Quasi88 disk images (.D77/.D88)

* Spectrum floppy disk image (.FDI)

* TeleDisk

* X68k DIM disk image files (.DIM)



Supported disk image formats (read and write)

=============================================



* Alcohol 120% Media Descriptor Structure (.MDS/.MDF)

* Anex86 disk images (.FDI for floppies, .HDI for hard disks)

* Any 512 bytes/sector disk image format (sector by sector copy, aka raw)

* Apple 2IMG (used with Apple // emulators)

* Apple DiskCopy 4.2

* Apple ][ Interleaved Disk Image

* Apple Universal Disk Image Format (UDIF), including obsolete (previous than DiskCopy 6) versions

* Apridisk disk image formats (for ACT Apricot disks)

* Basic Lisa Utility

* CDRDAO TOC sheets

* CDRWin cue/bin cuesheets, including ones with ISOBuster extensions

* CisCopy disk image (aka DC-File, .DCF)

* CloneCD

* CopyTape

* DataPackRat's d2f/f2d disk image format ("WC DISK IMAGE")

* Digital Research DiskCopy

* DiskDupe (DDI)

* Aaru Format

* IBM SaveDskF

* MAXI Disk disk images (HDK)

* Most known sector by sector copies of floppies with 128, 256, 319 and 1024 bytes/sector.

* Most known sector by sector copies with different bytes/sector on track 0.

* Parallels Hard Disk Image (HDD) version 2

* QEMU Copy-On-Write versions 1, 2 and 3 (QCOW and QCOW2)

* QEMU Enhanced Disk (QED)

* Ray Arachelian's Disk IMage (.DIM)

* RS-IDE hard disk images

* Sector by sector copies of Microsoft's DMF floppies

* T98 hard disk images (.THD)

* T98-Next hard disk images (.NHD)

* Virtual98 disk images

* VirtualBox Disk Image (VDI)

* Virtual PC fixed size, dynamic size and differencing (undo) disk images

* VMware VMDK and COWD images

* XDF disk images (as created by IBM's XDFCOPY)



Supported disk image formats (read-only)

========================================



* Symbian Installation File (.SIS)



Supported partitioning schemes

==============================



* Acorn Linux and RISCiX partitions

* ACT Apricot partitions

* Amiga Rigid Disk Block (RDB)

* Apple Partition Map

* Atari AHDI and ICDPro

* BSD disklabels

* BSD slices inside MBR

* DEC disklabels

* DragonFly BSD 64-bit disklabel

* EFI GUID Partition Table (GPT)

* Human68k (Sharp X68000) partitions table

* Microsoft/IBM/Intel Master Boot Record (MBR)

* Minix subpartitions inside MBR

* NEC PC9800 partitions

* NeXT disklabel

* Plan9 partition table

* Rio Karma partitions

* SGI volume headers

* Solaris slices inside MBR

* Sun disklabel

* UNIX VTOC and disklabel

* UNIX VTOC inside MBR

* Xbox 360 hard coded partitions

* XENIX partition table



Supported file systems for read-only operations

===============================================



* 3DO Opera file system

* Apple DOS file system

* Apple Lisa file system

* Apple Macintosh File System (MFS)

* CD-i file system

* Commodore 1540/1541/1571/1581 filesystems

* CP/M file system

* High Sierra Format

* ISO9660, including Apple, Amiga, Rock Ridge, Joliet and Romeo extensions

* Microsoft 12-bit File Allocation Table (FAT12), including Atari ST extensions

* Microsoft 16-bit File Allocation Table (FAT16)

* Microsoft 32-bit File Allocation Table (FAT32), including FAT+ extension

* U.C.S.D Pascal file system

* Xbox filesystems



Supported file systems for identification and information only

==============================================================



* Acorn Advanced Disc Filing System

* Alexander Osipov DOS (AO-DOS for Electronika BK-0011) file system

* Amiga Fast File System v2, untested

* Amiga Fast File System, with international characters, directory cache and multi-user patches

* Amiga Original File System, with international characters, directory cache and multi-user patches

* Apple File System (preliminary detection until on-disk layout is stable)

* Apple Hierarchical File System (HFS)

* Apple Hierarchical File System+ (HFS+)

* Apple ProDOS / SOS file system

* AtheOS file system

* BeOS filesystem

* BSD Fast File System (FFS) / Unix File System (UFS)

* BSD Unix File System 2 (UFS2)

* B-tree file system (btrfs)

* Coherent UNIX file system

* Cram file system

* DEC Files-11 (only checked with On Disk Structure 2, ODS-2)

* DEC RT-11 file system

* dump(8) (Old historic BSD, AIX, UFS and UFS2 types)

* ECMA-67: 130mm Flexible Disk Cartridge Labelling and File Structure for Information Interchange

* Flash-Friendly File System (F2FS)

* Fossil file system (from Plan9)

* HAMMER file system

* High Performance Optical File System (HPOFS)

* HP Logical Interchange Format

* IBM Journaling File System (JFS)

* Linux extended file system

* Linux extended file system 2

* Linux extended file system 3

* Linux extended file system 4

* Locus file system

* MicroDOS file system

* Microsoft Extended File Allocation Table (exFAT)

* Microsoft/IBM High Performance File System (HPFS)

* Microsoft New Technology File System (NTFS)

* Microsoft Resilient File System (ReFS)

* Minix v2 file system

* Minix v3 file system

* NEC PC-Engine executable

* NEC PC-FX executable

* NILFS2

* Nintendo optical filesystems (GameCube and Wii)

* OS-9 Random Block File

* Professional File System

* QNX4 and QNX6 filesystems

* Reiser file systems

* SGI Extent File System (EFS)

* SGI XFS

* SmartFileSystem

* SolarOS file system

* Squash file system

* UNICOS file system

* Universal Disk Format (UDF)

* UNIX System V file system

* UNIX Version 7 file system

* UnixWare boot file system

* Veritas file system

* VMware file system (VMFS)

* Xenix file system

* Xia filesystem

* Zettabyte File System (ZFS)



Supported checksums

===================



* Adler-32

* CRC-16

* CRC-32

* CRC-64

* Fletcher-16

* Fletcher-32

* MD5

* SHA-1

* SHA-2 (256, 384 and 512 bits)

* SpamSum (fuzzy hashing)



Supported filters

=================



* Apple PCExchange (FINDER.DAT & RESOURCE.FRK)

* AppleDouble

* AppleSingle

* BZip2

* GZip

* LZip

* MacBinary I, II, III

* XZ



Partially supported disk image formats

======================================

These disk image formats cannot be read, but their contents can be checksummed on sidecar creation



* DiscFerret

* KryoFlux STREAM

* SuperCardPro



License

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