Are you an "accidental" DBA?
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Claims a short checklist turns panic into control by prioritizing immediate backups and restore verification, setting up basic monitoring with Percona PMM, inventorying users and permissions, capturing current performance baselines, and writing simple runbooks for common failures. Emphasizes which tasks can wait versus which cause outages, shows concrete commands and verification steps, and reports whether the suggested recovery drills actually succeed on a typical LAMP/MySQL stack.
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