Maintenance plan for backup executes endlessly.

Hi All,
I have a maintenance plan for a full back which is scheduled to run once every night. It has been running quite peacefully with out any error and usually takes 50min average. But Now(the last three days), it starts executing but never completes. I tried
to run sp_who2 and saw a block when the execution reaches at a specific database. I stopped the execution, killed the spid on the 'Blk By' and then restarted the execution but same problem show up again. Whats going on? Any ideas?
Thanks.

-So as you told me i ran the sp_readerrorlog and found the below message. Looks like a virtual device kind of a things . . . .
2014-04-03 09:20:24.280 spid148 BackupVirtualDeviceFile::RequestDurableMedia: Flush failure on backup device '(local)_AAA_DEV_SQL_Database-SQL_Database-1396486800084#11-3006-SQL'.
Operating system error 995(The I/O operation has been aborted because of either a thread exit or an applicat.
And last night i tried to change the schedule at which the job is running and it worked well for today
but i think its not going to be like this today or on the weekends. So i couldn't see any block.
Thanks.
Tina
VIRTUAL_DEVICE generally means here that anything which is not local or shared disk.Like thrid taking party tool backup on tape or VSS backups which kind of take snapshot backup.If youo say that no Third party toll is involved and you dont want any
VSS backups please disable SQL Server VSS writer service.This will stop the VSS backups.Or as you suggested ,if you want VS backups ,you can schedule your backup at different time.
>>And last night i tried to change the schedule at which the job is running and it worked well for today
I guess I am correct about VSS backups interfereing your regular backup.
PS: Since you killed the thread you got message like below
BackupVirtualDeviceFile::RequestDurableMedia: Flush failure on backup device '(local)_AAA_DEV_SQL_Database-SQL_Database-1396486800084#11-3006-SQL'. Operating system error 995(The I/O operation has been
aborted because of either a thread exit or an applicat.
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