I've tried this as a global directive for << / >> and as a local directive 
running the backup as full always.  No luck. 

What I'm trying to do is create a directive that will ONLY backup filenames 
with a certain pattern and skip everything else.  

I've tried flipping the always and skip just in case the man page was wrong.  
No luck.   

Anyone have any insight that could help me out?  Thanks.

Networker 7.5.1 on Solaris 10.

#cat .nsr
+always:  data_D-db1*
+skip: .?* *
#find . -name "data_D-db1*"
./bck901/backups/db1/PAST/data_D-db1_I-2556859465_TS-DRIVE_HIST_DP_A01_FNO-393_ugks71k4
./bck901/backups/db1/PAST/data_D-db1_I-2556859465_TS-DRIVE_HIST_DP_A01_FNO-355_u2ks71k3
./bck901/backups/db1/PAST/data_D-db1_I-2556859465_TS-DRIVE_I_A01_FNO-578_05ks74gr
./bck901/backups/db1/PAST/data_D-db1_I-2556859465_TS-DRIVE_I_A01_FNO-580_07ks74jm


# savegrp -vvvvv ignore_me_testing
# nsrinfo -t $(mminfo -q 'group=ignore_me_testing,name=/test' -r 
'nsavetime,savetime(24),name,level' | grep -v 'save time' | sort | tail -1 | 
awk '{ print $1 }') server

scanning client `okrtape1' for savetime 1257460346(Thu Nov 05 16:32:26 2009) 
from the backup namespace
/test/
/
2 objects found

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