@aaru_dps

This is the official twitter account for the opensource Aaru Data Preservation Suite. Here we will publish commits, releases and other news.

Joined December 2017
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🎉 Aaru 6.0 is officially in BETA! Full OmniDrive support, GameCube/Wii/Xbox/PlayStation dumping, Blu-ray & HD DVD decryption, C2 Secure Audio reading, tons of new image & archive formats, and more. 🔗 patreon.com/claunia/posts/we…

🎉 We're in Beta! Aaru 6.0 is Here (Well, Almost) | Natalia Portillo

Today is not just another release. Today is a milestone. Mark your calendars, because Aaru has officially entered beta. 🥳 So what does that

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🎁 The Three Wise Men brought us a gift: a new Aaru alpha! Now with full flux image support (A2R, HxC, SCP) thanks to Rebecca’s amazing work. Plus DVD PFI fixes, translations, new icon, desktop file, and Debian/RPM packages. Still alpha—handle with care. Happy New Year!
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Alpha 16 out! 🎁 Negative & overflow sectors preserved, image merging, in‑place metadata editing, GUI polish, paranoia dumping, faster verification, long‑sector compare, improved dual‑layer DVD handling. Happy holidays — big feature coming 2026! #Preservation #DigitalPreservation
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🚀 Big news: the Aaru GUI is complete! 🔌 Connect devices locally or via AaruRemote 📊 Get instant media insights,block maps & speed graphs 💾 Dump media directly from the GUI—logs included! ⚠️ Still in alpha, so expect bugs… but enjoy the ride! 🎉 #opensource #datapreservation
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🎉 Aaru Gets a GUI — Seven Years in the Making | Natalia Portillo

Seven years ago, I knew very little about graphical interfaces. I hadn’t built many, and I was far from an expert. But I believed Aaru deser

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🚀 AaruFormat V2 is here! Redesigned for huge disk images, modular, and now open via libaaruformat. Integrated in Aaru 6.0.0-alpha.13 — test it, break it, help us improve it! 🛠️ Download now: github.com/aaru-dps/aaru/rel… #DigitalPreservation #OpenSource

Releases · aaru-dps/Aaru

Aaru Data Preservation Suite. Contribute to aaru-dps/Aaru development by creating an account on GitHub.

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🎉 1.0.0-alpha.1 is here! 🚀 Comprehensive bug fixes, validated core features & a sleek CLI. ⏳ Snapshots & resume support coming soon. Next: full Aaru integration! 🔥 Download on GitHub, test it, & share feedback to shape our stable 1.0.0! #opensource #digitalpreservation
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This is a milestone, after all this time, we now have a complete AaruFormat V2 image, with header v2, index v3, and ddt v2 all in the file.
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90% of optical discs that we preserve that have read errors at first try, read perfectly after a simple clean up. Fingerprints are the worst. Unfortunately the other 10% we're still working on it...
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Aaru Data Preservation Suite retweeted
Scott Hanselman 🌮
@shanselman25 Apr 2024
Microsoft just open-sourced DOS 4 hanselman.com/blog/open-sour… (as well a release of beta binaries, disk images, and PDFs from @rozzie's archives!) (but who did the PR?!)
old floppy disks

ALT old floppy disks

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Bueno solo tomó dos horas implementar el sistema de ficheros de Commodore en @aaru_dps 😴😴😴 pero ya los unit tests mañana q'es tarde #C64 #CBMFS #Commodore #Commodore64 #Commodore128 #C128
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Aaru Data Preservation Suite retweeted
Scott Hanselman 🌮
@shanselman20 Apr 2024
Digital archaeology reading 40 year old C64 Floppy Disks with a Greaseweazle, Fluxengine, and Aaru youtu.be/Jhgov6bh_pU?si=pNLH…
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We have just preserved this bundle. Raise your hand if you know where is it from!
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It's been a long day, but our first supported archive format is full in. Symbian Installation Files for EPOC Release 3 to 5 (and Release 6 if uncompressed and without scripts) are totally supported. Tested 1117 files without errors.
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More games preserved!!!
A bunch of PlayStation Portable discs spread out

ALT A bunch of PlayStation Portable discs spread out

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These discs were completely unreadable, NO MEDIUM FOUND. Can we save them???
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All of them have been successfully read without errors using Aaru. Sometimes a disc just needs some soapy love 🧼
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From our team, we send condolences to the family or Arsen "Ray" Arachelian, we would not be where we are without him. parkfuneralchapels.com/tribu…

Obituary of Arsen Arachelian | Park Funeral Chapels

​On January 18, 2023, Arsen “Ray” Arachelian, 51 years old, died of colon cancer. He is survived by his wife Lee Arachelian and two sons William and James Arachelian. Ray was born in Constanta...

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To all our users that are contributing thru @opencollect please stop doing so, they're holding the money hostage, denying any expense sent, and preventing us from changing our fiscal host.
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In December, we haven't received any new donation. Our current balance is $0. Become a backer! 😃 opencollective.com/discimage…
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In February, we received $5 from 1 backer. Our current balance is $41. Top backers: @pagetable Thank you! 🙏 opencollective.com/aaru
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In December, we received $5 from 1 financial contributor and we spent $1. Our current balance is $130. Thank you! 🙏 opencollective.com/aaru
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