How do you launch an SSH connection with port forwarding without interrupting your screen access?

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Published on 2012-10-25T16:52:29Z Indexed on 2012/10/26 5:05 UTC
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I want to make an SSH connection to another server with forwarding, but without having to log on to the remote server, nor interfere with the screen I am working on. I also need to access the connection to terminate it when I finish with it.

eg. say I want to do a mysql backup on a remote server so I use the command ssh user@remote -L 1234:localhost:3306 but after issuing the password I want to run the mysql command in the session, but be able to access the SSH connection when I finish with mysql and terminate it.

Is there some way this can be done?

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