Remote File Transfer, after Logout with rsync, ssh and disown

rsync -PhaC ./folder/ remote.host:~/folder/ > rsync.log

Enter Your Password

Hit ctrl-z to pause then type 'bg' to send process to background.

Find the pid of the rsync process with:
$ ps | grep rsync | cut -d' ' -f 1 > rsync.pid; cat rsync.pid;

disown `cat rsync.pid`

Now you can logout and the transfer will continue on. To kill the process, simply enter the following:
kill `cat rsync.pid`

To monitor progress, just type:
tail -f rsync.log