NAME
    dtas-archive - paranoid audio file copy

SYNOPSYS
    dtas-archive [OPTIONS] SOURCE DESTINATION

DESCRIPTION
    dtas-archive is intended for archiving audio data to/from laptops,
    marginal USB ports, and computers without ECC memory, attempting to read
    data multiple times in an attempt to detect memory or bus corruption.
    dtas-archive may only be effective on machines running the Linux kernel
    where posix_fadvise(2) can be used to drop caches for a particular file
    after fsync(2).

    dtas-archive spawns sox(1) to archive audio data (likely uncompressed
    WAVE) to FLAC and verifies the result using sndfile-cmp(1), a tool
    implemented by different than sox and less likely to share the same bugs
    (if any) as sox.

OPTIONS
    -j, --jobs [JOBS]
        Number of jobs to run in parallel. Incrementing this may hurt
        performance on slow storage devices. Default: 1

    -n, --dry-run
        Print, but do not run the commands to be executed

    -s, --quiet, --silent
        Silent operation, commands are not printed as executed

    -S, --stats
        Run and save the text output of the sox "stats" effect as
        $DESTINATION_FILE_WITHOUT_SUFFIX.stats next to the output file

    -k, --keep-going
        Continue after error

    -r, --repeat [COUNT]
        Number of times to repeat the sndfile-cmp(1) check. Default: 1

COPYRIGHT
    Copyright 2013-2020 all contributors <mailto:dtas-all@nongnu.org>

    License: GPL-3.0+ <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt>

CONTACT
    All feedback welcome via plain-text mail to:
    <mailto:dtas-all@nongnu.org>

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SEE ALSO
    sndfile-cmp(1), sox(1)