George Sinclair wrote:
> This is a simple question but maybe not an easy answer.

No, it is a very easy answer.

> 
> How can I obtain the time a given group last ran? I'd like to determine
> this to be used by a script that will run each day.
> 
> Obviously, there's a start time for the group, and that time is usually
> set in the NSR group resource, but it could change. In my case, the
> savegrp command will be launched from a cron job, so, yes, a specific
> time must be provided, but again, that could change, and I don't want to
> have to hard code it in my script. Moreover, the last time the cron job
> launched it, maybe it didn't run properly, maybe the client was down, or
> the network was down, or whatever, so I can't trust that the last time
> the group ran was, say, yesterday at that same time.
> 
> Looking at the savetime for the last save set using something like:
> 
> mminfo -s server -q 'group=groupname,savetime>one week ago' -ot -r
> savetime | tail -1

It's not in the media database, but it is in the resource database, thus
can be queried using nsradmin.

echo "  show last start
        print type:     NSR group;
        name:           yourgroupname" | nsradmin -i -

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