# Describe a restore job

:::code-group
```bash curl
PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"
JOB_ID="9857add2-99d4-4399-870e-aa7f15d8d326"

curl "https://api.pinecone.io/restore-jobs/$JOB_ID" \
    -H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2026-07" \
    -H "Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \
    -H 'accept: application/json'
```
:::

`GET /restore-jobs/{job_id}`

:::code-group
```json title="200"
{
  "restore_job_id": "670e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440001",
  "backup_id": "670e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
  "target_index_name": "sample-index",
  "target_index_id": "670e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440002",
  "status": "Completed",
  "created_at": "2025-02-04T13:00:00.000Z",
  "completed_at": "2025-02-04T14:00:00.000Z",
  "percent_complete": 100
}
```

```json title="403"
{
  "error": {
    "code": "PERMISSION_DENIED",
    "message": "Access denied: Permission control::backups::list is required"
  },
  "status": 403
}
```

```json title="404"
{
  "error": {
    "code": "NOT_FOUND",
    "message": "Restore job 670e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440002 not found."
  },
  "status": 404
}
```

```json title="500"
{
  "error": {
    "code": "UNKNOWN",
    "message": "Internal server error"
  },
  "status": 500
}
```
:::

#### Authorizations

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `Api-Key` | `string` | - |  |

An API Key is required to call Pinecone APIs. Get yours from the [console](https://app.pinecone.io/).

#### Headers

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `X-Pinecone-Api-Version` | `string` | `2026-07` | Required date-based version header |

#### Path Parameters

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `job_id` | `string` | - | The ID of the restore job to describe. |

#### Response

`200` — Configuration information and deployment status of the restore job.

The RestoreJobModel describes the status of a restore job.

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `restore_job_id` | `string` | - | Unique identifier for the restore job Example: 670e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440001 |

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `backup_id` | `string` | - | Backup used for the restore Example: 670e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000 |

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `target_index_name` | `string` | - | Name of the index into which data is being restored Example: sample-index |

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `target_index_id` | `string` | - | ID of the index Example: 670e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440002 |

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `status` | `string` | - | Status of the restore job. Possible values: Pending, Completed, Failed, or Cancelled. Example: Completed |

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `created_at` | `string \| null` | - | Timestamp when the restore job started Example: 2025-02-04T13:00:00.000Z |

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `completed_at?` | `string \| null` | - | Timestamp when the restore job finished. null until the job has completed. Example: 2025-02-04T14:00:00.000Z |

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `percent_complete?` | `integer` | - | Progress of the restore job: 100 once the job is Completed, absent while it is pending or after it has failed. Intermediate progress is not reported. Required range: 0 <= x <= 100. Example: 100 |

## Related pages

- [Create a backup of an index](./database-control-plane-create-backup.md)
- [List backups for all indexes in a project](./database-control-plane-list-project-backups.md)
- [List backups for an index](./database-control-plane-list-index-backups.md)
- [Describe a backup](./database-control-plane-describe-backup.md)
- [Delete a backup](./database-control-plane-delete-backup.md)
- [Create an index from a backup](./database-control-plane-create-index-from-backup.md)
- [List restore jobs](./database-control-plane-list-restore-jobs.md)
- [List collections](./database-control-plane-list-collections.md)
- [Create a collection](./database-control-plane-create-collection.md)
- [Describe a collection](./database-control-plane-describe-collection.md)

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