gbak running in embedded mode
матрациThose who are new to the Classic version of Firebird on Linux may find interesting that, while running gbak to backup a database, accessing the DB file locally (not by tcp/ip, etc), you will not find a fb_inet_server proccess serving the gbak connection. This is because, in this specific situation, gbak works in embedded mode. Alex Peshkov says this provides the best performance results.
So in embedded mode we have no ipc communications and no tcpip , i guess is just shared memory ? I will look in the source to see how it works …