Standby

From Business Continuity Management (BCM) and Disaster Recovery (DR) Wiki Glossary

1. Standby is the role of a redundant person or component that is monitoring its counterpart and is ready to be switched into service if the counterpart fails. BCMBoK Competency Level BCMBoK 4: Recovery Strategy CL 2: Intermediate (BC) BCMBoK Competency Level BCMBoK 4: Recovery Strategy CL 4: Intermediate (DR)

(Source: Business Continuity Management Institute - BCM Institute)