# Uploading 17500 users and their avatars using PHP

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/uploading-17500-users-and-their-avatars-using-php/71685>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [9. Oktober 2017 um 14:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uploading-17500-users-and-their-avatars-using-php/71685 "2017-10-09T14:39:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [9. Oktober 2017 um 20:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uploading-17500-users-and-their-avatars-using-php/71685/10 "2017-10-09T20:46:54Z")

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The Bitnami Discourse install is not supported or recommended.

You need the Discourse that you’re restoring to to be the same or newer version as the one that you did the backup from.

I’m pretty sure that the avatar import on Ning works as expected.

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