fail over

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English

Verb

fail over (third-person singular simple present fails over, present participle failing over, simple past and past participle failed 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.

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