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Howdy,
Sure, you can setup a spare server.
How elaborate that is depends on your available time, funds, and skill level, but a nice simple way to get started would be to setup a backup server that's a clone of your primary:
Install the same distro onto your spare server
Install Virtualmin onto your spare server
Each night, have the spare server import the Virtual Server backups generated by your primary server
At that point, your spare server has all the Virtual Server data on it that your primary has, and is at most one day old.
Should your primary server ever crash, you can just put your backup server into production.
-Eric
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Howdy,
Yup, I'd suggest installing Virtualmin on both servers.
Both servers should be setup identically (with the exception of the IP address, which you mentioned).
But here's were it potentially starts to get tricky :-)
One option is to just manually bring up the IP address on the second server if the first system were to crash.
Another option which could work automatically would be to setup some sort of failover... there are tools out there that can help with that.
We don't recommend any one tool in particular, it all depends on what you're familiar with and what works best on your servers.
However, one example of a set of tools that can do that are described here:
http://www.zivtech.com/blog/setting-ip-failover-heartbeat-and-pacemaker-...
What I'd suggest doing is searching Google for your distro name and "failover", and see what sorts of options people describe.
-Eric
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