Backup log location

Can anyone tell me where to find the equivalent of "backup.log" in server 2008. I cannot find anything obvious on disk. I want to find the information that you see in the GUI regarding success / failure. We have an application for Server 2003 that looks through date time stamps and 'signatures' / sizes of these backup logs to work out if backups have completed correctly. I would like to duplicate this in 2008.
Also, another backup question, if you have Exchange 2007 server on Server 2008, when a full block level backup runs I have read (not on MS site) that Exchange will be backed up and its logs trimmed "correctly" by the VSS writer. So if you were to do a full server restore of that server following a hardware failure the Exchange installation would be correctly restored and the database / logs correctly in sync. Can anyone confirm this.
Thanks
Nigel

Hi Nigel,
I read your post about exporting the windows backup log with wevtutil and tried this but I get a very hard to read output file if I enter the command:
wevtutil epl c:\Windows\System32\winevt\Logs\Microsoft-Windows-Backup.evtx C:\Users\Public\Documents\Scripts\backup-log.txt /lf:true /ow:true
Here is an example:
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I also tried the /f:text format but no difference.
Did you get the output in an easier to read format?
I am asking because I sometimes get "Warning: The backup operation that started at ... has encountered errors." on our SBS2010 but no info which files were not readable or the cause of the errors.

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WBAdmin BMR backup says "There is not enough free space on the backup storage location to back up the data."

We're doing nightly BMR backups of a small 2012 R2 Hyper-V host via wbadmin to 2TB USB disks, via
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