Thread: Making a job work in background with scp command

Hi All

IN solaries I am trying to copy files with scp command should continue to work in background evenif logout the session.But scp stops copying as soon a I logged out of session .following are the steps I tried.

1. get the confim PID from prstat or ps
2.control + z -----stopping job in foregroung(it not kills the process)
3.bg ----starts the latest stopped process in background
4.nohup PID ----to cont. copying after session logout

not used & for putting job in background as scp command asks password later.

still job fails to copy .Please suggest solution

• Can you use ssh-keys?
• Can you ssh ssh-agent?
• If not, than next tool is called sshpass.

try this one:
nohup scp a.bin <dest_host>:/<dest_dir> &


--j

The problem you have is related to TTY requirement, for Centos type:

yum install screen -y
screen -S myjob
bash my.bash
CTRL + A + D

close console and go home. Next day type:
screen -list
screen -R myjob

and whoaala you have your session back with SCP finished probably. By the way it is better to use rsync. More info here:

thetechtavern.com/2012/05/16/linux-how-to-background-a-process-using-screen-command/