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  • noun Plural form of failover.

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Examples

  • Most importantly, IRC has already encountered and solved the scaling problem many times over, with multiple servers all feeding the same chat space and netsplits handling server failovers.

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • Most importantly, IRC has already encountered and solved the scaling problem many times over, with multiple servers all feeding the same chat space and netsplits handling server failovers.

    Twitter and IRC: meet the twain 2008

  • In addition to that, since you are replicating data, you will also have backups in several places, which you can then use as failovers if your main database has any problem.

    WordPress Planet Keith Dsouza 2010

  • However, the biggest challenge respondents face when implementing cloud computing and storage is the ability to control failovers and make resources highly available 55

    Virtualization and Cloud Technologies Add Complexity to Disaster Recovery Initiatives - Yahoo! Finance 2010

  • To further isolate the problem, I logged in to a machine in site C as administrator (which was one of names on the reserve list) nad then edited the environment variable to ONLY look as far as the site C server, no failovers/fallbacks.

    All Discussion Groups: Message List - root 2010

  • In addition to that, since you are replicating data, you will also have backups in several places, which you can then use as failovers if your main database has any problem.

    Weblog Tools Collection Keith Dsouza 2010

  • Some failovers are catastrophic, while others may simply be the result of a deliberate test or a patch installation.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2008

  • Configuring a custom application can be most useful when dealing with the latter group of failovers.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2008

  • Configuring a custom application can be most useful when dealing with the latter group of failovers.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2008

  • Some failovers are catastrophic, while others may simply be the result of a deliberate test or a patch installation.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2008

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