remote download question

[eXtremist]

I'm at school now, but I want to download some stuff so it's on my computer when I get home later.

Can I SSH to my home computer, start an FTP download, and then log out and keep the transfer going?
I remember someone posting here before about moving it to the background, but I don't know how to do that right.

[ph34r]

Yah. You may want to use screen - it allows for virtual terms that you can connect/disconnect from as needed via a ssh/telnet session.

[eXtremist]

Okay.. I tried the following:

ftp sunsite.ualberta.ca

....

{press ctrl-z}
[1]+ Stopped ftp.ualberta.ca

From here I type bg 1 to send the program into the background. From here I can log out, and the transfer keeps going! YAY

Now, how long will this go for? Until I KILL it?