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Complete Definition of "failover"

English

Etymology
fail + over

Noun
failover

  1. A strategy for ensuring high availability of some critical resource (such as a computer system), involving a redundant, backup system which is kept running at all times so that, upon detected failure of the primary system, processing can be automatically shifted over to the backup.

#: Do we have a failover strategy for the database server?

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fail over

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