Precopy

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To copy in advance. transitive

    "However, in a true cloud computing environment, you don't know which other physical server the VM will be moved to, and therefore you don't know where to precopy the data."

Example

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"However, in a true cloud computing environment, you don't know which other physical server the VM will be moved to, and therefore you don't know where to precopy the data."

Etymology

From pre- + copy.

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