diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8bba51a5a..1aee178f6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ permalink: /docs/en-US/changelog/
 * Improved provisioning output
 * VVV will now attempt to test Nginx configs on installation and recover ( #2604 )
 * Switched to new launchpad PPA domains with HTTPS ( #2586 )
+* Improved the verboseness of the DB import scripts ( #2621 )
 
 ### Bug Fixes
 
diff --git a/config/homebin/db_backup b/config/homebin/db_backup
index 43f6a6dd4..92669d485 100755
--- a/config/homebin/db_backup
+++ b/config/homebin/db_backup
@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@
 set -eo pipefail
 set -u
 
-export VVV_LOG=""
+if [ -z "${VVV_LOG+x}" ]; then
+  export VVV_LOG=""
+fi
 
 trap 'rm -rf $TMPFIFODIR' EXIT; TMPFIFODIR=$(mktemp -d); mkfifo $TMPFIFODIR/dbnames
 
diff --git a/database/sql/import-sql.sh b/database/sql/import-sql.sh
index f4e9eeb62..3b87606da 100755
--- a/database/sql/import-sql.sh
+++ b/database/sql/import-sql.sh
@@ -20,7 +20,9 @@
 set -eo pipefail
 set -u
 
-export VVV_LOG=""
+if [ -z "${VVV_LOG+x}" ]; then
+  export VVV_LOG=""
+fi
 
 source /srv/provision/provision-helpers.sh
 
@@ -72,6 +74,7 @@ IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")
 # Parse through each file in the directory and use the file name to
 # import the SQL file into the database of the same name
 sql_count=$(ls -1 ./*.sql* 2>/dev/null | wc -l)
+vvv_info " * Found ${sql_count} database dumps"
 if [ "$sql_count" != 0 ]
 then
 	for file in $( ls ./*.sql* )
@@ -82,6 +85,15 @@ then
 			db_name=$(basename "${file}" .sql.gz)
 		fi
 
+		# skip these databases
+		[ "${db_name}" == "mysql" ] && continue;
+		[ "${db_name}" == "information_schema" ] && continue;
+		[ "${db_name}" == "performance_schema" ] && continue;
+		[ "${db_name}" == "sys" ] && continue;
+		[ "${db_name}" == "test" ] && continue;
+
+    vvv_info " * Processing ${db_name} dump"
+
 		# if we specified databases, only restore specified ones
 		if [[ "${#@}" -gt 0 ]]; then
 			FOUND=0
@@ -96,13 +108,6 @@ then
 			fi
 		fi
 
-		# skip these databases
-		[ "${db_name}" == "mysql" ] && continue;
-		[ "${db_name}" == "information_schema" ] && continue;
-		[ "${db_name}" == "performance_schema" ] && continue;
-		[ "${db_name}" == "sys" ] && continue;
-		[ "${db_name}" == "test" ] && continue;
-
 		if [ "1" == "${FORCE_RESTORE}" ]; then
 			vvv_info " * Forcing restore of <b>${db_name}</b><info> database, and granting the wp user access"
 			mysql -e "DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS \`${db_name}\`"
@@ -121,6 +126,7 @@ then
 				skip="true"
 			fi
 		done
+
 		for include in ${include_list[@]}; do
 			if [ "${include}" == "${db_name}" ]; then
 				skip="false"
@@ -160,4 +166,6 @@ else
 	vvv_success " * No custom databases to import"
 fi
 
+vvv_success " * Database importing finished"
+
 IFS=$SAVEIFS