Another approach (don’t know how hard this will be to implement):
A click on the status bar of a running backup job expands and overlaps (or even replaces) the list of backup jobs. This will generate plenty of space to show statistical information such as upload speed, number of files to be processed, percentage complete, etc.
At the bottom of that expanded screen could be a Collapse button and the links that are available for the backup job as shown in the main screen.
This will combine multiple submitted feature requests.