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hot standby Last modified: Wednesday, August 18, 2004

(hot stand´bī) (n.) A method of redundancy in which the primary and secondary (i.e., backup) systems run simultaneously. The data is mirrored to the secondary server in real time so that both systems contain identical information. Also see warm standby and cold standby.

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