Finds files of a given extension in a directory and moves them into another directory. Combine with cron to - for example - move log files to a network share for long term storage. Follows symlinks. Adjust maxdepth to increase or decrease recursion. Simple & effective!

finderMover.sh

#!/bin/bash
Source="/var/log"
Destination="/to/your/backups"
find -L $Source -maxdepth 3 -type f -name "*.gz" -exec mv {} $Destination \;