Purge option doesn't appear to be working?

[allangourdie2]

Hi. I am using...
/home/ec2-user/ec2-automate-backup.sh -v vol-abc -k 21 –p

However, nothing ever gets purged? The output from my logs looks like...
Snapshots taken by ec2-automate-backup.sh will be eligible for purging after the following date (the purge after date given in seconds from epoch): 1470452701.
Tagging Snapshot snap-95382979 with the following Tags: Key=CreatedBy,Value=ec2-automate-backup Key=PurgeAfterFE,Value=1470452701 Key=PurgeAllow,Value=true

Policy looks like...
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"ec2:CreateSnapshot",
"ec2:DeleteSnapshot",
"ec2:CreateTags",
"ec2:Describe_"
],
"Resource": [
"_"
]

Any ideas?

[gaubapravar]

did you get through this. @allangourdie2
Im facing the same problem. :(

[Atekka85]

In our case the following policy right was missing for the user who created the backup from the machine:
ec2:DescribeSnapshots
After adding the right the script now was able to list the snapshots for removal before that, that functions resulted an empty list therefore other function does not removed anything.