Is there a way to backfill historical data (once) for a new Flow?

[newskooler]

Hi,

I just started reading about Prefect (and have a little experience using Airflow).

My goal is to set a task which runs daily in Prefect and collects data to a folder (I guess that's what Prefect can help me do for sure).
Also my goal is to populate the historical data (as if I ran this job back in time).

In Airflow there is this concept of start_date which when set in the past, the DAG will run since that date and populate on each interval.

For example, if I have a task which takes a date and returns the data for that date, such as:

# Pseudo code
def get_values_from_somewhere(date: datetime) -> dict:
    return fetched_values_in_json(date)

Is there a native way to do this in Prefect?
I could not find this answered anywhere in here or the docs.
Any help / guidance will be super useful.

P.S. I have also asked the question here and expanded with a bit more information on what I have already tried.