That way doesn't let you check on your progress, right? Screen / Tmux let you re-attach to the session at any time and see what's going on, if there were errors etc.
> That way doesn't let you check on your progress, right
It does if you redirect the output to a file other than /dev/null, but in my experience checking on the progress is irrelevant - it's done when it's done.
tmux isn't strictly necessary:
then log out and it'll keep running.