If you create on OnlyFans, your Vault is your business — years of photos, videos and pay-per-view sets. And OnlyFans gives you no way to bulk-export it. There’s no “download everything” button, no archive request, nothing. So if your account is ever suspended, hacked, locked during a payout dispute, or you simply decide to leave, that entire library can vanish overnight. This guide shows how to keep your own complete copy.
To be clear up front: this is about backing up your own content — work you created and own the copyright to. That’s the most clear-cut, sensible kind of backup there is.
Why creators need an offline backup
The risk isn’t hypothetical. Creators lose access to their own content all the time:
- Account bans and suspensions — sometimes by mistake, sometimes with no warning, and appeals can take weeks (or fail).
- Payment-processor and compliance freezes that lock the account.
- Hacks or lost 2FA that get you locked out of your own profile.
- Leaving the platform — moving to Fansly, your own site, or quitting — and wanting your catalogue with you.
- Repurposing — re-cutting old sets for promos, other platforms, or compilations, which means you need the source files in full quality.
A platform you don’t control should never be the only place your life’s work lives. An offline master copy fixes that.
What “back up your Vault” actually means
Your Vault is OnlyFans’ media manager — the library of everything you’ve uploaded, including items you’ve posted and ones you haven’t. A real backup means pulling all of it down at original quality, organised, to storage you own (an external drive, your NAS, a cloud bucket — your choice).
Doing that by hand — opening each post, right-click-saving, dealing with protected video — is hopeless at any real volume. You need a tool that walks the whole Vault for you.
How to do it with Fanripper
Fanripper is a browser extension (Chrome, Brave, Edge) that runs entirely on your own machine — nothing is uploaded to anyone’s server. For creators, the relevant piece is its whole-profile bulk backup with a Vault scope:
- Install it once. Download, unzip, and load it from your browser’s extensions page — about a minute. (Full steps on the install page; it’s the same one-time setup the video downloader guide walks through.)
- Log into your own OnlyFans as you normally would. Fanripper works through your existing session — it never asks for your password.
- Open the panel → Whole profile → choose the Vault scope. It auto-scrolls and queues your entire Vault so you don’t babysit the page.
- Let it run. It downloads everything — photos, standard video, and DRM-protected video — paced to look like normal browsing, and saves it to your drive in full quality.
Whole-profile/Vault backup is part of the Pro plan ($8/month, or $99 lifetime). If you only need to grab individual posts, the free tier and how downloads work covers that.
Keep it sensible
A few honest notes:
- This is for backing up your own content. Don’t redistribute other people’s work — that’s a different thing entirely.
- Store your backup somewhere private and ideally in two places (the classic rule: one local, one offsite). A single external drive can fail too.
- Run a fresh backup periodically — your Vault grows, and the best time to have a copy is before you need it.
Bottom line
OnlyFans won’t hand you your catalogue, and the day you lose access is the worst time to wish you’d kept a copy. Backing up your Vault takes one setup and one run, and then your life’s work lives somewhere you actually control.
Ready to keep your own copy? Install Fanripper and run a full Vault backup — your content, on your drive, for good.