# Error restoring backup due to null post

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-restoring-backup-due-to-null-post/68920>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [August 28, 2017, 11:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-restoring-backup-due-to-null-post/68920 "2017-08-28T11:43:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2017, 12:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-restoring-backup-due-to-null-post/68920/7 "2017-08-29T00:25:39Z")

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> [@sam](#):
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> trying to cook a post with raw == nil

So basically you have a null post (no body, no content) on your site, in your database.. we don’t support that.

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