Backup Progress Status or Progress Bar

I have now Acronis 2012 and I did my backup of my partition, actually an image of my HD.
My question is: where is the progress bar? How I will know how my backup is doing and how long it will take? I did a backup, a file of 230 GB was created and it took about three hours to do it on an external HD. And I knew it finish because the HD stop making noises. But I never saw any indication about the progress of the task.
Is this normal in this version or I am missing something. I really like more the version 10 in this regard.