Time machine missing the 'Latest' Symlink

Hey Gang,
I have a friend that had a failed Hard drive and when she tried to recover from time machine, it did not recognize as a TM backup at all.
After looking into it, the 'Latest' shortcut is missing in the backup on the time capsule.
I looked on mine and it is only a SymLink to point to the most recent backup set.
Does anyone know a simple way to add a 'Latest' folder back into the backup set so it will be recognized as a full TM backup and allow us to restore?
Currently i'm using disk utility to restore the data (600GB) to another drive to see if i can then add the SymLink and then repackage it and put it back on the Time capsule. I figured while i wait for that, i would see if anyone has a better options. I couldn't find anything in the tmutil that would be useful.
tmutil restore didn't see any backups to restore from.

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