Proxmox on OVH Cloud vzdump of lxc container. Errors and very long backup times

stitzinger

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Jul 27, 2026
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Problem 1:
Error on Proxmox -> CT -> Backup -> Backup Now -> Mode: Suspend
INFO: rsync: chown "/mnt/pve/ovh-nfs-node02/dump/vzdump-lxc-666-2018_03_27-05_52_04.tmp/." failed: Operation not permitted (1)
Version: Proxmox 9.2.3.
Storage: OVH Dedicated Server Backup Storage. NFS Mounted with Datacenter -> Storage
OVH does not allow any way to change the NFS Server Settings

Fix 1
/etc/vzdump.conf
tmpdir: /local/path/vzdump-tmp
Fix 2
Backup -> Mode: Shutdown

Proxmox 9.2.3 has the problem while 7.2-7 can backup to the same NFS Backup storage without error.

Problem 2:

Using vzdump to backup a 250G (650,000 files) Mail server takes 18hr+ to NFS mounted storage - using TMPDIR then to NFS storage 12 minutes

Cause is probably the Lots of Small Files problem. Each file system operation has high latency over NFS.

Posted this message in addition to my reply to an existing post so we have a specific subject line. I don't see many postings about OVH cloud.
https://forum.proxmox.com/forums/proxmox-ve-installation-and-configuration.16/

I'd be curious to hear if anyone has any more insights or references I should have know about.