> Are you really interested in the time?

I really am. :-) As I said, I need to restart the client that the clone is 
coming from. If I restart the machine while the cloning to tape is still 
going on, then I get an incomplete saveset on tape. So if I can tell when 
the job (usually) finishes, I can schedule the restart time for a period 
after it ends. If I don't know when the cloning ends, I have to change the 
job to *not* clone at all, but only write to disk. Then restart the 
client, after the write to disk is done. Then manually clone. Then go and 
change the job back to it's original parameters.

That's a lot more steps I have to do, rather than just (perhaps) being 
able to wait until the job is done cloning to tape.

> Maybe it is just fine to check whether the job has successfully 
> finished? - 

As I say, the mminfo query reporting on "sscomp" is not giving the finish 
time of cloning to tape, only the finish time of writing to disk. I have 
verified this.

> If this is enough you should run a mminfo job where you report the 
number of 'copies'.

That won't tell me when the job usually finishes, so I can use that to 
schedule restarts.