How to Backup Projects to Prevent Data Loss from AI Tool Overwrites

Vlad S. · 2026-08-28T13:46:57.378Z

is there a way to make a backup of our projects? I'm thinking particularly with the advent of AI tools, they might sometimes erase or overwrite important stuff (I've had it happen) and without a way to undo that their usefulness is limited to read only

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Julianne B. has opened ticket 18205
Julianne Bozzini
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Hey Vlad! There isn't a full project-level backup today, but we're currently rolling out Version History for reports, which lets you see past versions of a report and revert query changes, including those made by AI. That covers reports rather than the whole project, so the broader "undo anything an AI tool touched" gap is still open. It's on our radar and I've also passed your feedback along to the team.
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Vlad S.
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would that work if AI deletes a report, say?
Vlad S.
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that's really the main issue I ran into (although I imagine deleting a board or a custom property would be bad as well)
Julianne Bozzini
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It doesn't currently work if the report is deleted, but I'm also not aware of any paths for AI to delete a report directly. They can remove reports from a Board or delete an entire Board, which does take its reports with it, but deleted Boards can be recovered by writing to Support. Is there a specific report you ran into being deleted? Or was an entire Board deleted?
Vlad S.
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hmm it was a while back so I don't remember, it might have been possible at the time and got fixed in the meantime
Vlad S.
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or maybe it emptied my reports and I remebered that as having deleted them
Julianne Bozzini
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The Version History would help for if AI emptied reports. Definitely let me know if you run into AI deleting a report directly though- I did some testing to try to force it to, but it just guided me to manually delete in the UI or would remove it from the Board (which can look similar to deletion if you don't have a link/ report name on hand)
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Vlad S.
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ah maybe that's what happened, it probably got removed from the board and ended up dangling... I wasn't aware that the reports are still saved once they're removed from a board though, I thought belonging to a board was enforced in the schema
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Julianne Bozzini
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Ah! You're actually right here- I went back to a report I'd had MCP remove from a board earlier, and it was fully deleted. When I first checked, I had a cached version open in the browser, which is why I thought it survived. I'm going to flag that the tool description for that operation needs to be clearer about what it deletes, and will submit a separate gap around recovery for deleted reports. Appreciate you for pushing on this!
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Mixpanel Support
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Julianne B. has opened ticket 18205
Julianne Bozzini
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Hey Vlad! There isn't a full project-level backup today, but we're currently rolling out Version History for reports, which lets you see past versions of a report and revert query changes, including those made by AI. That covers reports rather than the whole project, so the broader "undo anything an AI tool touched" gap is still open. It's on our radar and I've also passed your feedback along to the team.
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Vlad S.
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would that work if AI deletes a report, say?
Vlad S.
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that's really the main issue I ran into (although I imagine deleting a board or a custom property would be bad as well)
Julianne Bozzini
APP
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It doesn't currently work if the report is deleted, but I'm also not aware of any paths for AI to delete a report directly. They can remove reports from a Board or delete an entire Board, which does take its reports with it, but deleted Boards can be recovered by writing to Support. Is there a specific report you ran into being deleted? Or was an entire Board deleted?
Vlad S.
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hmm it was a while back so I don't remember, it might have been possible at the time and got fixed in the meantime
Vlad S.
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or maybe it emptied my reports and I remebered that as having deleted them
Julianne Bozzini
APP
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The Version History would help for if AI emptied reports. Definitely let me know if you run into AI deleting a report directly though- I did some testing to try to force it to, but it just guided me to manually delete in the UI or would remove it from the Board (which can look similar to deletion if you don't have a link/ report name on hand)
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Vlad S.
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ah maybe that's what happened, it probably got removed from the board and ended up dangling... I wasn't aware that the reports are still saved once they're removed from a board though, I thought belonging to a board was enforced in the schema
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Julianne Bozzini
APP
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Ah! You're actually right here- I went back to a report I'd had MCP remove from a board earlier, and it was fully deleted. When I first checked, I had a cached version open in the browser, which is why I thought it survived. I'm going to flag that the tool description for that operation needs to be clearer about what it deletes, and will submit a separate gap around recovery for deleted reports. Appreciate you for pushing on this!
👍1