% dtas-archive(1) dtas user manual =head1 NAME dtas-archive - paranoid audio file copy =head1 SYNOPSYS dtas-archive [OPTIONS] SOURCE DESTINATION =head1 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 L can be used to drop caches for a particular file after L. dtas-archive spawns L to archive audio data (likely uncompressed WAVE) to FLAC and verifies the result using L, a tool implemented by different than sox and less likely to share the same bugs (if any) as sox. =head1 OPTIONS =over =item -j, --jobs [JOBS] Number of jobs to run in parallel. Incrementing this may hurt performance on slow storage devices. Default: 1 =item -n, --dry-run Print, but do not run the commands to be executed =item -s, --quiet, --silent Silent operation, commands are not printed as executed =item -S, --stats Run and save the text output of the sox "stats" effect as $DESTINATION_FILE_WITHOUT_SUFFIX.stats next to the output file =item -k, --keep-going Continue after error =item -r, --repeat [COUNT] Number of times to repeat the L check. Default: 1 =back =head1 COPYRIGHT Copyright 2013-2016 all contributors L License: GPL-3.0+ L =head1 CONTACT All feedback welcome via plain-text mail to: L Mailing list archives available at L and L No subscription is necessary to post to the mailing list. =head1 SEE ALSO L, L