I decided to completely remove BE and reinstall it and so far everything is running successfully. Thanks to everyone here for your assistance.
arg, sorry, I left that part out.
There's no a/v installed on these servers and while we previously did have AOFO enabled, I disabled it for the file only backup run to see if it would have any positive impact.
Oddly enough it doesn't list any particular file that it's hanging on. It shows the following:
Source: \\servername\c:
destination, current directory, current file are all blank. This is the same thing I would see when it hung on the system states as well.
Oh and one more thing to mention, it still will not let me cancel these jobs when they hang. It continues to show the state as "running" and never changes to cancel pending. I've checked the event log on the server that it's trying to back up but hanging on and there's nothing at all in there related to the agent, shadow copy or network errors.
