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  • noun computing The restoration of a system in a state of failover back to its original state (before the failure occurred).

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fail +‎ back

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Examples

  • To be clear: the failback is not strickly to deter Iran, but to checkmate more capable nuclear forces from arraying their atomic weaponry in defense of Iran to Israel’s great strategic detriment.

    Optimism Watch: Instapundit/Israel/Obama edition. | RedState 2010

  • Put bluntly, Israel must have a credible failback on the nuclear forces of the United States to deter IRAN from a first strike if Iran gains that capacity.

    Optimism Watch: Instapundit/Israel/Obama edition. | RedState 2010

  • It will also speed up the cloning of virtual machine data by a factor of two, according to EMC, and includes an automated failback system for vCenter Site Recovery Manager.

    Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories 2010

  • "As virtual environments-and the inherent management complexities for managing these environments-grow, EMC continues to bring to market storage solutions and features such as compressing virtual machines, cloning virtual machines, and automating failback/failover to solve our customers 'challenges."

    Personal Computer World Latest updates 2010

  • ATTO's 4Gb/s Fibre Channel HBAs provide high performing SAN connectivity and robust multipathing and failover/failback functionality for EMC storage systems in Mac® OS X environments.

    Latest News from SYS-CON MEDIA 2010

  • Fun with Domain Controllers Part 1 - Using the set spn command after a Double-Take failback.

    Netvouz - new bookmarks jecogite 2010

  • The plug-ins also automate the failback process for VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager software in NFS environments, which is unique to the industry.

    CIO.in varsha_chidambaram 2010

  • In addition it well speed up the cloning of virtual machine data by a factor of two and includes an automated failback system for vCenter Site Recovery Manager.

    Personal Computer World Latest updates 2010

  • EMC's new Celerra Plug-Ins for VMware Environments adds several new capabilities, including an automated failback process for VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager software.

    CIO.in varsha_chidambaram 2010

  • Fun with Domain Controllers Part 1 - Using the set spn command after a Double-Take failback.

    Netvouz - new bookmarks jecogite 2010

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