Can you rebuild SSA without losing any settings?

Due to a long story (below) I'm at the point where I probably have to rebuilt my Search Service Application. However, I don't want to lose all the search settings.
I found this
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/office/5ce9297e-90e6-4439-a584-04182b12dd43 which says it will allow me to export Content Sources, Query Rules, Crawl Rules, and File Extension Settings. That does not seem to be all the settings I want though,
I have a lot of Managed Properties. I have not found anything else yet that lets me export search settings.
My questions are:
1. is there a way to save all the settings, then create a new SSA, then re-apply the settings, so I don't lose Query Rules, Managed Properties, etc? Is there another (Free) tool out there that will let me export all settings? Or are managed properties in
some completely different location than those 4 search databases.
2. is there way to not lose the "training" that search has done to remember what people have searched on and how they use search? (such as when it shows the user things they did recently, or the auto-fill in search boxes that fills in with likely
searches they might want)
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The problems we are having:
Due to trying to migrate to new servers, use of stsadm -o renameserver, (which worked perfectly in our Test environment but did not work so perfectly in production) I cannot get my search service working or update my topology (several topology items are
in warning or error state. (Before I started all servers were in "No action required" state on "manage servers on this farm" page in CA)
QueryProcessing and Analytics Components stuck in Degraded, non-active, "resolving" state
Indexing components stuck in "replicating" state, even though there are no items in the index.
I have tried everything I could find online (such as mentioned here
https://www.kieferconsulting.com/blog/Pages/SP2013-Fixing-Search-After-The-Index-Drive-Fills.aspx ) including restarting the services, trying to reset index, stopping timer and search host services and then manually deleting index files (then running
$ssa.Reset($true,$true) ). I have tried to set a new topology that does not contain the broken ones, but I can't I keep getting that I have to finish an upgrade on another server (and I can't set the topology on that server either). I can't even pause via
$ssa.Pause() it just times out. $ssa.Reset() times out. And the logs just say it's waiting for an update, that is the only issue.
I tried psconfig -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b but that would die saying it was still waiting for an upgrade.
So then I ran this:
stsadm -o setproperty -propertyname command-line-upgrade-running -propertyvalue No
psconfig -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -wait -force

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