Aimage

aimage (the advanced imager) was an imaging tool that was part of AFF.

aimage could create files in raw, AFF, AFD, or AFM formats. AFF and AFD formats could be compressed or uncompressed. aimage could optionally compress and calculate MD5 or SHA-1 hash values while the data was being copied. It had intelligent error recovery, similar to what is in ddrescue.

aimage was withdrawn from support (December 25, 2010).

Linux distributions that packaged aimage are encouraged to drop it and package Guymager instead.

See Also

• How_to_image_an_IDE_disk_with_aimage_and_FreeBSD

External Links

• Advanced Forensic Format: an Open, Extensible Format for Disk Imaging, by Garfinkel, Malan, Dubec, Stevens and Pham, 2006