My suggestion here would be use a combination of directives - skip and
always. 

Eg :
<</>>
        +skip: ? *
        +always: *.log

HTH
Rovin D'Souza
rovinabi AT gmail DOT com

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Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 7:07 PM
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Subject: [Networker] How to backup single file type only?

Braack Peter wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> it sounds trivial but I can't find a solution:
> How do I backup all files matching let's say *.log in every
subdirectory?
> I know how to use directives to exclude specific files or folders.


Just a thought: Have you tried to skip "everything except .log", like
in:
skip !*.log

I haven't seen this form in the manual, but it's worth a try anyway

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