precopy

verb

precopy

verb

Etymology From pre- + copy.

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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To copy in advance.

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.2015, James Bond, The Enterprise Cloud: Best Practices for Transforming Legacy IT, page 75:

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