That’s great, I will give them a go, thanks.
Yes, absolutely. phpMyAdmin works well for us, as opposed to the backup in Search & Replace, which seems to stall out and effectively hang up the site. There’s a big difference in efficiency in backup methods, it seems.
Great, so we really have to be concerned with all of them, though wp_options isn’t public-facing, right, so really shouldn’t be a factor?
That plugin worries me because it doesn’t have a preview feature for changes, like Search & Replace (which has the best preview that I’ve found) and Better Search Replace (which people say does a better job in the actual replacing, while also letting you ignore GUID).