% dtas-archive(1) dtas user manual % # 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 2015-2016 all contributors .\ License: GPL-3.0+ # CONTACT All feedback welcome via plain-text mail to: \ Mailing list archives available at and \ No subscription is necessary to post to the mailing list. # SEE ALSO sndfile-cmp(1), sox(1)