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Command Description

This operation will convert a dump from one image format to another.

Command usage

Aaru -d [true/false] -v [true/false] image convert -h [true/false] -c <count> --comments <comments> --creator <creator> --drive-manufacturer manufacturer> --drive-model <model> --drive-revision <revision> --drive-serial <serial> -f [true/false] --media-barcode <barcode> --media-lastsequence <number> --media-manufacturer <manufacturer> --media-model <model> --media-partnumber <partnumber> --media-sequence <sequence> --media-serial <serial> --media-title <title> -O <options> -p <format> -r <resume file> -x <xml sidecar> <input-path> <output-path>

-d, --debug [true/false] shows debug output (default false)
-v, --verbose [true/false] shows verbose output (default false)
-h, --help [true/false] shows help screen for the command instead of running it, ignores all other switches (default false)
-c, --count <count> specifies how many sectors to convert at once (default 64)
--comments <comments> specifies image comments
--creator <creator> specifies who (person) created the image?
--drive-manufacturer <manufacturer> specifies manufacturer of the drive used to read the media represented by the image
--drive-model <model> specifies model of the drive used to read the media represented by the image
--drive-revision <revision> specifies firmware revision of the drive used to read the media represented by the image
--drive-serial <serial> specifies serial number of the drive used to read the media represented by the image
-f, --force [true/false] continues conversion even if sector or media tags will be lost in the process (default false)
--media-barcode <barcode> specifies barcode of the media represented by the image
--media-lastsequence <number> specifies last media of the sequence the media represented by the image corresponds to (default 0)
--media-manufacturer <manufacturer> specifies manufacturer of the media represented by the image
--media-model <model> specifies model of the media represented by the image
--media-partnumber <partnumber> specifies part number of the media represented by the image
--media-sequence <sequence> specifies number in sequence for the media represented by the image (default 0)
--media-serial <serial> specifies serial number of the media represented by the image
--media-title <title> specifies title of the media represented by the image
-O, --options <options> specifies comma separated name=value pairs of options to pass to output image plugin
-p, --format <format> specifies format of the output image, as plugin name or plugin id. If not present, will try to detect it from output image extension
-r, --resume-file <resume file> takes list of dump hardware from existing resume file

-g, --geometry <geometry> force geometry, only supported in not tape block media. Specify as C/H/S

--fix-subchannel-position store subchannel according to the sector they describe

--fix-subchannel try to fix subchannel. Implies fixing subchannel position

--fix-subchannel-crc If subchannel looks OK but CRC fails, rewrite it. Implies fixing subchannel

--generate-subchannels generates missing subchannels

-x, --cicm-xml <xml sidecar> takes metadata from existing CICM XML sidecar

Example

Aaru image convert -c 32 --comments "My converted image" --creator "Jane Doe" --drive-manufacturer "LG" --drive-model "CD-RW 1234" --drive-revision "1.0" --drive-serial "AABBCCDDEEFF01" --media-lastsequence 2 --media-sequence 1 --media-title "Important software" -O "deduplicate=true,nocompress=false" -r dd_dump.resume.xml -x dd_dump.cicm.xml dd_dump.iso dump.aaruf

Operating system support

FreeBSD macOS Linux Windows
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