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Expand Up @@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ This is a dump of the public information in the crates.io database.
- `crate_owners.owner_id` - if the owner is a user, this is their ID in `users.id`, otherwise it's the ID in `teams.id`.
- `teams.login` - this will look something like `github:foo:bar`, referring to the `bar` team in the `foo` organisation. At present, as we only support GitHub, the first component will always be `github`.

## Historical version downloads

For performance reasons, the live `version_downloads` table only includes data for the last 90 days. All available historical data (back to November 2014) archived from the table is available at https://static.crates.io/archive/version-downloads/ in CSV form.
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For performance reasons, the live `version_downloads` table only includes data for the last 90 days. All available historical data (back to November 2014) archived from the table is available at https://static.crates.io/archive/version-downloads/ in CSV form.
For performance reasons, the live `version_downloads` table only includes data for the last 90 days. All available historical data (back to November 2014) archived from the table is available at <https://static.crates.io/archive/version-downloads/> in CSV form.

to make this a clickable link 😉


## Restoring to a Local crates.io Database

1. Create a new database.
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