Exchange 2010 and Windows server backup hanging

I have a new install of Exchange 2010 running on Server 2K8 standard that I am trying to backup using the Windows server backup. For some reason it just sits at Running Consistency Check for Application Exchange.
I've had it sitting there for about 12 hours with no backup activity taking place.
Has anyone seen this or have any idea whats going on?

Additionally, if you check task manager and see ESEUTIL.EXE running (and taking processor usage) while Backup says "Running consistency check for application Exchange" then it apparently is actually still running. It would be REALLY nice if
there was a progress indicator on this step!!!
A progress indicator would be nice, especially since new log files continue to get generated as the check goes on.
Here's how I checked my progress:
Open Resource Monitor (resmon.exe)
Go to the "Disk" tab
expand the "Disk Activity" section
sort by the File column (and expand the column a bit)
you'll see eseutil.exe hitting files looking like \Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy6\Exchange_Log\MailBoxDatabase1.log\E0200005A83.log, E0200005A84.log, E0200005A85.log, etc...
Use calculator to convert those rightmost digits from hex to decimal
Go into the folder with the log files (ex:\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy6\Exchange_Log\MailBoxDatabase1.log\) and find the most recent log file's hex digits and convert that to decimal
We had another team at my company build an Exchange 2010 server this past summer and I just found out that it hadn't been backed up
ever so we're up to 644,000 log files and the server is only moving at 1,312 log files per hour during the consistency check so this could be a 21 day process before the backup even begins.

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