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GCP snapshot schedule - set but no snapshots produced

Could anyone help track down what's going on here please?

I have created a snapshot schedule (daily at 3am etc.) and associated a number of disks on a number of instances to that snapshot schedule

When I browse to snapshots in the GUI (after waiting more than a day), I see nothing 😞
Checking the schedule confirms that it is in use by a number of instances
If I go to Disks, I can see them correctly linked to a snapshot schedule

All the usual criteria are met I believe (these are the only snapshots I'm taking, so way less than 1000), I don't use my own encryption keys.

What am I missing? I have a snapshot schedule and that schedule is associated with a number of disks. I thought that's all I had to do?

Any help would really be of use - thanks!

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According to GCP public documentation, to list the available  snapshots, you need to have the permission compute.snapshots.list assigned on the project.

After reviewing and assigning the permission required, please try to list the snapshots available by running:

gcloud compute snapshots list --project PROJECT_ID

where PROJECT_ID is the ID of the project.

If you still have problems viewing the available snapshots, please contact the support team, since this problem will require review of your particular project.

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According to GCP public documentation, to list the available  snapshots, you need to have the permission compute.snapshots.list assigned on the project.

After reviewing and assigning the permission required, please try to list the snapshots available by running:

gcloud compute snapshots list --project PROJECT_ID

where PROJECT_ID is the ID of the project.

If you still have problems viewing the available snapshots, please contact the support team, since this problem will require review of your particular project.

Thanks for the response. Still can't see anything unfortunately, so just to make sure I created a manual snapshot (I.E. not through schedule) via the GUI and that showed up fine, so permissions are ok.

I will contact the support team as you suggested.

I had the same issue, disabling VSS solved the problem.

Thanks! Did that, waiting for the schedule to begin, let's see!