1. Open a screen
2. Start an rsync job to maintain parity between source and destination
3. Exit the screen, but keep it running
4. Now rsync will be running in the background until you kill it

You can reattach the screen whenever you want to check on status, change parameters or kill it

Thanks for sharing! I’m a pure headless Linux user, so I don’t know much about desktop environments

Depending on your file structure, you could probably keep this running all the time so you don’t have to manually intervene in the future

rysnc might be a faster and more reliable option. It can compress the files for transfer and does checksums after the transfer is complete

I used something like this to transfer 12 TB from offsite to onsite with zero failures

rsync -arvzip --progress /path/to/host /path/to/destination

You can set up a screen and let this run in the background all the time