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fail over

verb

Definitions

  1. To automatically switch processing from a failed component in a critical system to its…

    To automatically switch processing from a failed component in a critical system to its live spare or backup component.

    • If the Web server crashes, we can fail over to the spare in less than a second.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fail over. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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