precopy

English

Etymology

pre- +‎ copy

Verb

precopy (third-person singular simple present precopies, present participle precopying, simple past and past participle precopied)

1. (transitive, computing) To copy in advance.
   • 2015, James Bond, The Enterprise Cloud: Best Practices for Transforming Legacy IT, page 75:

     However, in a true cloud computing environment, you don't know which other physical server the VM will be moved to, and therefore you don't know where to precopy the data.