In Part 2 of 'Build your own NAS' I showed you how to set up an SSH server and use BackupAssist to rsync backups to the OpenMediaVault server. In this latest post I'll show you how you can quickly get access to these backups using a windows SMB/CIFS share.
Following on from my last post where I mentioned this fantastically simple software for creating your own NAS (ideal for BackupAssist's Rsync feature), in this post I'm going to take things a step further and outline how to go about setting it up.
For a long time now I've been experimenting with different hardware and software solutions, looking for an all purpose storage server I could use both at home and in the office. At home I've basically just been after a centralised store for my photos, movies and documents with a level of integration that would also allow me to stream content to various different devices. In the office we need a bit more, so support for technologies such as Rsync, SSH, iSCSI, RAID drives and NFS have all been on my wish list.
Over the past few years we've used a variety of different virtualisation tools but have historically always stuck to a mixture of either VMWare tools (esxi, Player and Workstation) or Microsoft’s Hyper-V platform.
These have worked really well for building larger virtual server platforms but recently I was looking for a quick and easy to configure tool that I could use on my own desktop PC. I was just looking to build some simple test machines for evaluating software in a range of scenarios.
After some browsing I came across Oracle VirtualBox and I must say I've been impressed with it so far. 
