Complete Definition of "fail over"

English

Verb
fail over (past tense failed over, participle failing over)

  1. 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.

See also
failover

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