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Amos Version 6.8.

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Monthly export, full-export, backup
1-Montly Export
1- Exporting to be carried out in end of month (last day of every month) and before
updating the counters.
2-before decide to create export file you must be sure there is no over due job in the data
base, so open AMOS program and below the MAINTENANCE click on WORK ORDER
as shown in the picture.

Following page will appear, on that click on DUE NOW and OVER DUE, also GLOBAL
SEARCH as shown in the picture and click OK.

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If you have any over due job in different departments you will received list of them
which to be informed to responsible engineer or officer to complete that, otherwise you
will receive following page and massage which is showing there is no over due job on
data base till that day.

3- Take a backup from data base, the procedure explained in end of this manual.
Now you can start to create export file.
4-bellow the FILE in front of EXPORT/IMPORT clicks on EXPORT as shown in
picture.

You will receive following page.

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In front of FORMAT by default is Native do not change that
In front of Description you can fill with information of this export for example date…
In front of Selection File click on red mark area and will receive following page.

Click on export.sel file till it is coming in front of File name (this file is the file which the
AMOS program using that to create the export file) then click on Open.
You will receive following page.

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As you see in front of Selection File filled by AMOS. Address of transfer folder may be
different on your computer and usually is c:\amos\amos business suite\transfer, depends
on Amos installation on your computer.
In front of File Name there is a number (in the picture 00000002),this number actually is
name of export file which the AMOS will create and the address of this file on the
computer is same as address in front of Selection File which shown in the picture.
Now if you click on OK, exporting procedure will start and after some time will complete
and the page will come back to AMOS first page.
After complete the exporting, export file with name 00000002.exp created and will be in
same address showing on computer in front of Selection file in the picture. You must find
this file and send it to head office, also one copy of this file to be kept on your computer.
Generally all export files which creating on board to be kept on computer and should not
be deleted any time.
When you start next exporting the file name automatically will change to 00000003 and
this numbering will help head office to import your sent export file by sequence.
If by mistake during the month you create an export file, in end of month you create
another one and send both of them to head office.

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2-Full- Export
1-open EXPORT in front of export/import bellow the file in Amos as shown in the
picture.

You will receive following page.

In front of FORMAT by default is Native do not change that


In front of Description you can fill with information of this export for example date…
In front of Selection File click on red mark area and will receive following page.

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Choose full-export.sel file till come in front of file name and clicks open. You will
receive following page.

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Click on mark area as shown in front of file name. You will receive following page.

In front of file name give a name to your full-export file (normally this name is consist of
full-export plus date to showing when this full-export taken. then click on save. you will
receive following page.

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Click on OK to start full-exporting.
After Amos complete the procedure, will come back to first page and you will find
created file in address which already explained during export procedure.

Normally capacity of full-export file is much more than export file, because this file is
consist of complete data base with an especial format but an export file which monthly
created, just is consist of all the changing which you done to data base from last export
file till that time.

3-Backup
Amos data base is consist of two files
1-Amos.db
2-Amos.log
These files are placed on Amos server computer and another client computers just trough
the network can access and update them. If something happen to Amos server computer
everything will be lost. Because of that you need to have a copy from date base files
every 15 days. There is a batch file (with extension .bat)created base on DOS commands
and is pointing to backup procedure file which already designed for copy data base files
to address which you define in there.
So just you must know that address and then When you click on this file data base files
will be copied automatically in that address. Save data base files on CD or other
computers.

Best regards,
Shah Hosseini.
Pms Engr.

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