Strategy for uploading large(ish) library?

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I have about 2.5 TB to upload, and with my current internet connection, it should take almost a week. I’m running rclone from my OMV server through an SSH connection. When I shut down the SSH connection, though, the process stops. Is there some way I can get it to run in the background? Or do I have to keep my SSH session up and running the entire time? Thanks.

2

use screen

screen -dmS rclone rclone copy remote: remote2:

3

Thanks. That’s exactly what I was looking for. (Unfortunately it looks like OMV doesn’t have screen, and I can’t install it with apt-get.)

4

Download it manually
wget http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/screen/screen_4.3.1-2build1_amd64.deb
and install with
dpkg -i screen_4.3.1-2build1_amd64.deb

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5

Unfortunately my installation of OMV is old enough that this package didn’t have the right dependencies (or versions) installed. I don’t want to risk messing anything up by doing a update. Instead I use an rpi to ssh in and use “screen”. I don’t mind leaving the rpi running.

6

You could always run it in the background the old fashioned unix way, something like this

nohup rclone .... </dev/null >/tmp/log 2>&1 &

This should remain in the process tree (see it with ps ax) after you log out.

7

if you use screen, is there any way to open the window to see where its at?

8

screen -S rclone

*where rclone is the name of your screen session that you passed before the command screen -dmS rclone rclone copy remote: remote2:

to dettach you’ll do:
ctrl-a
d

9

Ahhhh! That makes sense why rclone was in the command twice.

Thanks!