I just ran into a problem where a daily exchange backup was not completing successfully. The error NTBACKUP gave me was (1f) which is because it could not find the backup file (.bkf) that it created for the backup set.
I went to the shared drive where the backup file should have been saved, and sure enough it was gone. I watched it for a day just to see if it would create the file by itself, but that proved to be false. It looks like NTBACKUP needs to already have the backup file in the right location for it to run the backup job successfully.
To solve the problem, I recreated the backup file that it was looking for in the shared folder. I did this by doing the following:
1. Right click
2. Choose “New”
3. Select “Text Document”
4. Type the exact name of the file that ntbackup needs.
5. Make sure you change the file extension to .bkf or it ntbackup will not use it.
6. Done.
After that the backup jobs started to run successfully again without a problem. I am still not sure why the original file disappeared but that’s not really important at this point.
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