This issue is schedule to be addressed in Service Pack 1, however, Microsoft has provided a work around. The issue is that the task actually “drops” a character from the end of the backup directory path entry. Whoops.
Here’s the workaround while waiting around for SP1: Support Tip: A Backup Site Server maintenance task may fail to run in ConfigMgr 2012

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