I will create a dir file under d:\backup\ankdb, its name is important? Anyway I named it same with the groupname. And wrote;

+skip: *.bak
+skip: *.dif

It stil didnt work?

I have had troubles with such directives earlier also so not sure what the problem is. How it worked for me was to create a .dir file in the folder on the client i.e. d:\backup\ankdb with two lines +skip: *.bak & +skip: *.dif. Try this out.

Interesting.

Strum, the client is obviously Windows, however is the Server Linux or Solaris by any chance?

Unbeliable, putting quotes worked, thanks. Admin guide used it without quotes !!

You want to skip both *.BAK and *.bak

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     +skip: *.BAK
     +skip: *.DIF

    +skip: *.bak
    +skip: *.dif

Server is also Windows 2003.

That's typical for NW and Windows.  You either use \\, or quotes or / instead of \ and it will work. The way code operates is still the way UNIX works and single \ there means something else.