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# Aaru Data Preservation Suite
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Hello! **Aaru Data Preservation Suite** is a fully-featured software package to preserve all storage media from the very
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old to the cutting edge, as well as to give detailed information about any supported image file (whether from Aaru or
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not) and to extract the files from those images.
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## Aaru DPS includes:
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- **Aaru**
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- The main software that does all the heavy lifting, including dumping and extraction.
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- **[Aaru Remote](/remote/readme.md)**
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- A slim application that allows Aaru to dump media or run other commands on an unsupported system via a network
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connection.
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- **libaaruformat**
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- C implementation of the Aaru Image Format.
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- And more!
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## Key features of Aaru:
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- Aaru Image Format, the format that stores the most amount of data for any given format and supports media of almost
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any type.
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- Dumps almost any kind of storage media, with more types of media being added whenever possible.
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- Able to read information and extract files from many different formats, as well as easily convert from any format to
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many other compatible formats.
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- Automatically stores metadata, including checksums, of the image files and their tracks (if applicable) in an easily
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accessible XML, and can generate this data for any image.
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## Key features of the Aaru Image Format:
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- Stores the most amount of data compared to any other image format for supported media.
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- Uses compression to take up the least space possible compared to any other format.
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- Can be used to store data from any type of media supported by Aaru.
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- Can be converted to many formats supported by Aaru, so you can easily create an ISO (or other image types) for
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software that doesn’t support the Aaru Image Format.
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## Installation
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Download the latest release from https://github.com/aaru-dps/Aaru/releases
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For a practical UI for Aaru, we recommend using the [Media Preservation Frontend](https://github.com/SabreTools/MPF).
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## Quickstart
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See the [Quickstart](/quickstart.md) section of the docs! |