failover
An automatic switch to a secondary system on failure of the primary system, such as a…An automatic switch to a secondary system on failure of the primary system, such as a means for ensuring high availability of some critical resource (such as a computer system), involving a parallel 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.
Meaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)An automatic switch to a secondary system on failure of the primary system, such as a means for ensuring high availability of some critical resource (such as a computer system), involving a parallel 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.
Origin
Deverbal from fail over.Deverbal from fail over.
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Forms
plural: failoversWord family
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