background jobs

Hello all,
 I am using a laptop and some of my .sql files with
insert statements (300K insert statements) take very
long time.

I user

database=> \i /home/user/../../../insert.sql

this takes a long time. and if i shutdown my laptop,
the server connection is lost . I am using Putty to
connect to my server.

Could any one help to setup a background job where I
can start a job and forget until the next morning to
see that the job is finished.

Should it be something like the following:
myserver$ psql -d mydb -d node2|\i /insert.sql &>

this command is WRONG.  Can any one help me with a
correct one.

Thank you
K

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