Requesting help with Midnight Commander and SFTP

Good morning.

From my understanding, MC does not support SFTP per say, but it uses FISH (sh command). The FTP support is only for plain FTP.

I have a Synology diskstation and I would like to be able to transfer files to my off-site backup, a Seagate FoFlex home I bought. Since Synology does not have FTP client support my only option seem to be using MC with Putty.

I have encountered several difficulties and I would like some help.

1. How can I shutdown my computer (computer that I have accessed MC via Putty) once I have initiated the transfer. I noticed that if I close Putty, the transfer also stops. Since my transfers are hundred of GB's, and it would take days to complete, I don't wish to have to leave my computer on.

Now, the following questions are regarding sh, connecting securely.

It seems that every time I use sh command to connect to my seagate I encounter the following errors:

Error 1: is this, which I have solved as per the blog

pesikov.tk/blog/cannot-chown-target-file-remote-io-error-121/

I am not sure if the attributes only mean ownership/permissions or it also includes actual data.

Error 2: This is the worst error as I don't know how to fix it. Once the transfer is initiated, it transfers for several seconds (several MB's) and then I get prompted with this error (see attachment).

In that case it took 22 seconds for the error to appear. I have plenty of space on my Seagate, and this error does not happen when using FTP (plain FTP, unsecure).

If anyone could help me with my initial question and error 2 (and maybe some explanation regarding error 1)

Thanks

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