Continue running background task after session logout on Linux

• 1 Start your task from the terminal
  
• 2 Press CTRL+Z to suspend running task
  [1]+ Stopped long-running-task
  
• 3 disown -h %1 # ignore SIGHUP signal
  
• 4 bg 1 # resumes the job 1 in the background
  
• 5 Alternative with a different user:
  $ sudo -u rsync nohup bash sync.sh
  $ disown
  
• N Log-out and it will continue running
  

References

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/954302/how-to-make-a-program-continue-to-run-after-log-out-from-ssh
• https://superuser.com/questions/476873/what-is-effect-of-ctrl-z-on-a-unix-linux-application
• https://phoenixnap.com/kb/disown-command-linux
• https://www.baeldung.com/linux/job-control-disown-nohup