Speak of Murphy and he will appear. Right here is a good example. No backups. Corrupt file. Just the same as flat tire, no spare.
This is something of a sad story. Hope it works out.
I've read a lot where the final step in a backup process is to ensure you can actually restore the backup :-D. We update our hardware frequently enough such that we do side by side updates (sometimes upgrading the SQL version too) where we restore last night's backups onto our new servers. Proof positive:exclamation:
Ken