This post was good one! I have finished making an inital DRP using virtualization. It's great but I could use a newer, more powerful server instead of adding RAM and re-using an old server.

I can rest easy instead of relying on tape backup (what if the entire server goes down), I just make a script to copy the complete DB backup. (I know it's a long story regarding checking backups etc. so let's skip that since ). Then the DB backup is restored on the VM if things go down.