On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 04:34:34PM -0800, Mike Egglestone wrote: :Hi all, : :I would like to copy a huge file from one server to another. :but because it takes a long time, I would like to exit :my remote shell that I used to login and run the scp command. : :I have tried with the " & " symbol after the command but no go. :ex. :scp /home/user/file.txt bigserver:/home/user2/ &
A theory... start the scp: scp /home/user/file.txt bigserver:/home/user2/ then after authenticating and starting the file transfer CTRL-Z to stop the scp then: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bg this will restart the last job in the background. -Jon
