precopy
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editprecopy (third-person singular simple present precopies, present participle precopying, simple past and past participle precopied)
- (transitive, computing) To copy in advance.
- 2015, James Bond, The Enterprise Cloud: Best Practices for Transforming Legacy IT, page 75:
- 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.