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A few people had asked me to check in on the ANCAPEX.com video below.

In the video, Intlibber Brautigan blames Yukiko for the failure of the exchange, and has even mentioned IBM's name in vain. When MySQL files are corrupted, they are corrupted. I tried to contact Yukiko, but she was unavailable at this time. However, it came to my attention that Yukiko was serving as a web host - she was providing a service, and part of the service included the backups regularly done by web hosts.

It doesn't make sense. As someone who has been dealing with MySQL with websites for over 8 years - sites like LinuxGazette.com, all of this is completely idiotic... So let me lay it out for you.

• The domain name 'Ancapex.com' never, ever belonged to Intlibber Brautigan or ACE. Ever. So claiming that they had 'problems with one of their domains' is inaccurate, and perhaps intentionally misleading.
• If you only have one backup you are depending on and it is the backup done by your host, you're wrong. It really is that simple. If you're depending on backups, you should have them archived off the site and stacked in chronological order. Period. The responsibility to back up any database belongs to the person who owns the site - not the web host.
• MySQL doesn't really require third party tools for backup. If BNT was using InnoDB, hot backups are possible with a 3rd party application - starting at $580. Is Innodb required for something like Ancapex? No, not really. It is an enterprise level application, not a 'playing with a nuclear device on sidewalk' level of application. No matter what Intlibber thinks, Ancapex is not an enterprise level of application. And blaming CPanel? Weak.
• Any organization depending on database transactions can easily create backups, regularly, with a cron. But if you leave the backups on the server, and the server goes down, then you don't really have backups- do you?
• If IBM can unscrew a corrupted MySQL database file, look for a new star in the sky. This was name dropping, plain and simple, and trying to lend credibility to Ancapex through the use of IBM's name.

The last I heard, 8 of 14 companies on Ancapex had copies of their shareholders lists. BNT - Intlibber Brautigan's 'company' - did not have this done, and he was quick to mention Yukiko's name on that, again. But let's take stock. 8 CEOs of companies listed on an exchange understood that their data was their problem. The owner of the exchange and of BNT did not. His claim of expecting a CTO to do the job implies an organizational structure that does not really seem to exist. It is, quite frankly, pitiful.

Ultimately, as Intlibber Brautigan himself notes, he is responsible. You can make Ancapex sound like the largest organization in the world, but everyone knows who Ancapex is - it's Intlibber Brautigan. Everyone else is incidental, and they have a tendency to show up like those ensigns in Star Trek who never make it to the end of the show.

I wonder who the next ensign will be...