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for scping large files, its very comfortable to let them run in the background.

especially when you are at home and want to turn off the pc and let the servers do their work over night.

how to:

execute the normal scp command, eg:

after confirming the key and authentificating (if necessary), you can "stop" the job by pressing : ctrl + Z

then you can proceed the job in the background by typing

finally, to make sure the process is working in background, control it with the command

now, you can go to bed and turn off your pc. :)

oh yeah, by the way... you can to this with every command you like to.