The ID if the TV is in parentheses next to the TV name on the Elements tab under Template Variables.
Yes, I recommend backing things up first. If you have cPanel access, you could back up by exporting the database in PhpMyAdmin.
If you don't have cPanel access, the
SiteCheck extra can back up the database from within MODX (and perform a lot of tests for you). There are probably free extras that will back up the database, but I don't know much about them.
Create a snippet called FixTVs with my code. Then put a tag for that snippet on some page and view the page:
I would manually delete all files in the core/cache directory (with the CacheClear extra) right after running the snippet to make sure the cache is fully cleared.