Can you have two identical iPhones?

[janfon]

At the moment I have one iPhone but would like to have an extra in case that one gets lost or something. But I wouldn't want to configure the no 2 iPhone manually, so can I just restore the extra iPhone from my iCloud backup, and keep using both phones? I know I can use iCloud backup to restore an existing iphone, but can it also be used to copy everything to an additional iphone? Will all apps and settings within apps (e-mail accounts, icloud account a.s.o.), just get copied to the extra iphone, essetially making it identical to the original?

Thanks
Jan

 

[C DM]

Pretty much everything that is in the backup (as it is at the time of the backup) should be there.