Aaru

Aaru

Homepage: GitHub

Developer: Claunia

Aaru is a powerful media preservation program that has a wide range of support of media types. Written in C#, it is cross-platform thanks to .NET Core and can work with a variety of original hardware. The project is fully open source and is constantly being updated with new features and fixes.

By default, Aaru rips media to its specialized Aaruformat image. This format is extensible and can represent nearly any type of media imaginable while still maintaining as much information on the original media and hardware as possible. Also by default, media rips will include a CICM XML sidecar that contains a lot of extra information that is not automatically stored in the image itself.

For the purposes of Redump, Aaru does not immediately produce compatible dumps, since even when dumping or converting to BIN/CUE, it does not produce the same split format. However, nearly all of the information required for submission is included in the output files and should still be considered to be good dumps of the media (sometimes more accurate than DiscImageCreator, depending on the source media).

PLEASE NOTE: If you are planning to use Aaru to dump CSS- or CPPM-protected media and have used previous versions of Aaru in the past, please run aaru configure before attempting to dump through MPF. The relevant option that you need to agree to is "Do you want to enable decryption of copy protected media?". Without this, dumps may not complete at all and could take an extremely long time. This is a relatively new permission that is required from versions 5.3 onward.