An automatic switch to a secondary system on failure of the primary system, such as a means for ensuring highavailability of some criticalresource (such as a computer system), involving a parallelbackup 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
From fail + over.
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