---
title: "Resume yesterday's box"
description: "Resume a suspended box where it stopped, with its processes, memory and ports as they were."
order: 3
verified:
  cli: "0.0.0-mock"
  date: "2026-10-20"
---

Resume it with `vakna resume <box>`: its processes carry on from where they stopped, and the time it spent suspended billed no compute.

## How do I pick up a box where I left it?

```sh
$ vakna resume docs
$ vakna shell docs -- git status
```

```prints
suspended 2h 10m · compute not billed
resumed in 0.33s
ran git status · exit 0 0.40s
```

## What happens if I forget to resume it?

The command doesn't run, and the error says how to resume it. Vakna never resumes a box as a side effect.

```sh
$ vakna shell docs -- git status
```

```prints
vakna: box docs is suspended
hint: vakna resume docs  # suspended 2h 10m
```