I want to archive all config.xml files recursively... but only these files. Using WinRAR.
Directory structure:
In WinRAR simply specify the source path with *:
C:\Jenkins\Jobs\*\config.xml
Additionally you can exclude the builds like shown. Then this backup will be extremely fast :)
7z a -r -xr!builds c:\Backups\Jenkins.7z D:\Jenkins\jobs\*.*