Anyway to save/backup animation events (marker positions)?

Hello all. The animation event feature is one of my best. I use it a lot and most of my game mechanics depend heavily on it.

I once had to delete and re-import one of my models because of some bugs that couldn't be reset. This model had quite a number of animations and most of them had animation events markers. But when I reimported it, the markers were gone. I painstakingly had to set each markers at the exact locations, with their functions and parameters for each animation. It was really difficult and frustrating, and I wouldn't like to go through that again, especially now that I have MUCH MORE animations using events.

Is there a way to save/backup animation events? I really hope there is. And if there isn't, can markers be placed on animations via scripts?