diff --git a/pkg/icingadb/objectpacker/objectpacker.go b/pkg/icingadb/objectpacker/objectpacker.go
index be481ddf..85c0f6fb 100644
--- a/pkg/icingadb/objectpacker/objectpacker.go
+++ b/pkg/icingadb/objectpacker/objectpacker.go
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ func PackAny(in interface{}, out io.Writer) error {
 	return packValue(reflect.ValueOf(in), out)
 }
 
+var tBytes = reflect.TypeOf([]uint8(nil))
+
 // packValue does the actual job of packAny and just exists for recursion w/o unneccessary reflect.ValueOf calls.
 func packValue(in reflect.Value, out io.Writer) error {
 	switch kind := in.Kind(); kind {
@@ -50,7 +52,8 @@ func packValue(in reflect.Value, out io.Writer) error {
 			}
 
 			// Pack []byte as string, not array of numbers.
-			return packString(in.Interface().([]uint8), out)
+			return packString(in.Convert(tBytes). // Support types.Binary
+								Interface().([]uint8), out)
 		}
 
 		if _, err := out.Write([]byte{5}); err != nil {
diff --git a/pkg/icingadb/objectpacker/objectpacker_test.go b/pkg/icingadb/objectpacker/objectpacker_test.go
index 7b15ccf1..3f7f201c 100644
--- a/pkg/icingadb/objectpacker/objectpacker_test.go
+++ b/pkg/icingadb/objectpacker/objectpacker_test.go
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package objectpacker
 
 import (
 	"bytes"
+	"github.com/icinga/icingadb/pkg/types"
 	"io"
 	"testing"
 	"unsafe"
@@ -129,6 +130,7 @@ func TestPackAny(t *testing.T) {
 
 		assertPackAny(t, binary, append([]byte{4, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0}, binary[:]...))
 		assertPackAny(t, binary[:], append([]byte{4, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0}, binary[:]...))
+		assertPackAny(t, types.Binary(binary[:]), append([]byte{4, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0}, binary[:]...))
 	}
 
 	assertPackAnyPanic(t, complex64(0+0i), 0)