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

I recently took a trip with two children (4, 18 months). We did a sleeper train from Brussels to Prague (EuroSleeper) and from Vienna to Zurich (NightJet operated by OBB)

The OBB trip was phenomenal. Great amenities, and we were on their older model. So I can’t imagine how great the newer carriages are.

The EuroSleeper was awful. Bad amenities, never received our (prepaid) breakfast, temperature was stifling (85° F, 29° C) and the ride was not very smooth.

I would gladly do a sleeper train again, but maybe not with kids so young. Probably not until the kids are 10+