Time machine restarts instead of pausing when I stop backing up

I am using time machine for the first time on my new imac 2012.  When I am doing something computer intensive like video editing, I want to pause the time machine.  It is on its first backup which will take 3 days.  Apple says that if you click stop backup, it will pause and then restart where it left off.  WIth me, it goes right back to the beginning.
Why? What can I do about this?

I am not sure about the term snapshot.  Maybe that was how it worked in the past.
I have actually solved this one.
First, I get it that it might work better without intervention... but I needed to turn it off and it didn't make sense that it started over.
Turns out.. It DIDN"T start over.  It just looked like it did.
The little bar went back to the beginning and didn't restart at the place where it stopped.  Underneath it said 1 MB of 721 GB and started climbing.  What I didn't notice was that originally, it was out of 950 GB!
So it WAS resuming where it left off.  It would have been much clearer if the bar began again at the same place as it was and the numerator and denominator were the same.  Instead, it started the numerator at zero but there was a new denominator...  set to where it had left off.
Apple is supposed to be intuitive. Chalk one up for non-intuitive.  Having said that, the result is what it should be.  If you stop the backup, it doesn't go back to the beginning and start again.  It resumes without admitting it did!

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