Scp background execution

To execute scp in background add ampersand:

scp -r /path/on/local_pc/ root@IP:/path/on/server/  &

👆Also please reember, so speedup scp if you copy folder with several files instead of one file use tar + ssh:

tar -czf - /path/on/local_pc/ | ssh root@IP tar -xzf - -C /path/on/server/