closing SSH session without killing the SFTP transfer on the remote machine

stevec · 04-20-2006, 04:09 PM

I'm connecting to my home computer from work via SSH. My home computer is transferring a large file via SFTP to a different machine.

I have to leave and log out of the computer (closing my SSH session) at 5:30 EDT. The transfer will not be done by then.

Can anyone tell me the best way to prevent the killing of my transfer on my home machine when I have to end the SSH session on my work machine?

Thanks in advance.

stevec · 04-20-2006, 04:47 PM

I've checked out screen and nohup, but I'm not sure how I can use these when the sftp transfer is already running?

tomdkat · 04-20-2006, 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by stevec

I've checked out screen and nohup, but I'm not sure how I can use these when the sftp transfer is already running?

You can't. One thing you could do is terminate the transfer and restart it using nohup and run it in the background:

$ nohup sftp {blah) &

I don't know if sftp supports resuming file transfers or not.

Peace...