Sending a process to the background

[numerodix]

When I start a process in the foreground, then hit ^Z, that should send it to the background, right? Say I run a backup script that gives no output anyway and by mistake I run it in a terminal in the foreground. What I should have done was to append & at the end of that command but it's too late now, what do I do? Well from what I understand it's ctrl+z, sends it to the background, doesn't it? But from my observations, the process always dies shortly thereafter.

What am I doing wrong?
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[Lajasha]

I think that action pauses the process. The only thing you could do is kill the process and start it the correct way next time.
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[numerodix]

Pause.. well that's still good. How do I resume?
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[Lajasha]

sorry, to resume you need to use

[wimac]

Well if you want to send a program to the background you can eather launch it with the "&" as an argument,

[Konsti]

Ya, it is the Ctrl+Z AND bg thing