Hello - I am using the following stsadm commands to do an export and an import. I get the error below. Any help? thanks stsadm -o export -url http://server1/TSN -includeusersecurity -versions 4 -filename tsn.bak -overwrite stsadm -o import -url http://server1:46155/operations/tsn -includeusersecurity -filename tsn.bak[2/27/2008 10:42:32 AM]: FatalError: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFieldLinkCollection.Add(SPFieldLink fieldLink) at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPContentType.LoadWithFieldLinks(XmlReader xrdr, String strFlnks) at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPContentType.Load(XmlReader xrdr) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ListSerializer.UpdateListContentTypes(SPList list, Dictionary`2 listMetaData, StreamingContext context, ISurrogateSelector selector) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ListSerializer.SetObjectData(Object obj, SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context, ISurrogateSelector selector) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.XmlFormatter.ParseObject(Type objectType, Boolean isChildObject) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.XmlFormatter.DeserializeObject(Type objectType, Boolean isChildObject, DeploymentObject envelope) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.XmlFormatter.Deserialize(Stream serializationStream) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ObjectSerializer.Deserialize(Stream serializationStream) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ImportObjectManager.ProcessObject(XmlReader xmlReader) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.SPImport.DeserializeObjects() at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.SPImport.Run()

There's a new content deployment QFE that you can get from Microsoft which may resolve this. Andrew Connell blogged about it being available a few days ago: http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2008/05/20/MOSS-2007-Content-Deployment-QFE-Pack-Now-Available-via-MSFT.aspx

Hi, Same issue for me too. Have anyone fixed this issue? Thanks, Tamilan K