Definitions | failover |
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- 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?
Etymology: fail + over
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