# View the completion time of restore job

**URL:** <https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/view-the-completion-time-of-restore-job/4936>\
**Category:** Using FoundationDB\
**Created:** [June 11, 2025, 5:08am UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/view-the-completion-time-of-restore-job/4936 "2025-06-11T05:08:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![shiberus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/foundationdb/user_avatar/forums.foundationdb.org/shiberus/32/1979_2.png) [@shiberus](https://forums.foundationdb.org/u/shiberus)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 5:08am UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/view-the-completion-time-of-restore-job/4936/1 "2025-06-11T05:08:06Z")

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Hi dears,  
I’m new to foundationdb and need some clarifications.  
Recently, i tried to restore from foundationdb snapshot, and then successfully. When using `fdbrestore status -t <tag>` cli, i could only see the status “running” or “completed” of the restoration job. My question is how can I view the exact timestamp when the restore job was completed.  
Thanks for all of your helps 🙏

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**Author:** ![shiberus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/foundationdb/user_avatar/forums.foundationdb.org/shiberus/32/1979_2.png) [@shiberus](https://forums.foundationdb.org/u/shiberus)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 7:35am UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/view-the-completion-time-of-restore-job/4936/2 "2025-06-19T07:35:34Z")

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Hello,  
Is there anyone who can help me clarify this thing? 😔

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**Author:** ![danm](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/foundationdb/user_avatar/forums.foundationdb.org/danm/32/1393_2.png) [@danm](https://forums.foundationdb.org/u/danm)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 8:21am UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/view-the-completion-time-of-restore-job/4936/3 "2025-06-19T08:21:10Z")

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I don’t believe you _can_.

We trigger the restore operation within a `tmux` session and use the `-w` flag so that the `fdbrestore` call won’t exit until the restore is complete, and then wrap the call in a pair of `date` calls so that once it is done we can record the exact start and end times and the duration. And all that is only necessary because we couldn’t find an existing command to answer “When did the restore operation complete?” and/or “How long did the restore take?”