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Failover

Automatically switching operational duties to a standby secondary system when the primary system fails.

Definition

Automatically switching operational duties to a standby secondary system when the primary system fails.

Use case

Promoting a secondary database replica to primary writer within 10 seconds of main node hardware failure.

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Failover

Wikipedia · Article · link checked 2026-10-16

Handing work to the standby the moment the primary fails.

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