diff --git a/services/secondary-storage/server/src/org/apache/cloudstack/storage/resource/NfsSecondaryStorageResource.java b/services/secondary-storage/server/src/org/apache/cloudstack/storage/resource/NfsSecondaryStorageResource.java
index 6927f028cf2..78f4bf19a91 100755
--- a/services/secondary-storage/server/src/org/apache/cloudstack/storage/resource/NfsSecondaryStorageResource.java
+++ b/services/secondary-storage/server/src/org/apache/cloudstack/storage/resource/NfsSecondaryStorageResource.java
@@ -340,12 +340,14 @@ public class NfsSecondaryStorageResource extends ServerResourceBase implements S
             String downloadPath = determineStorageTemplatePath(storagePath, destPath);
             final File downloadDirectory = _storage.getFile(downloadPath);
 
-            if (!downloadDirectory.mkdirs()) {
-                final String errMsg = "Unable to create directory " + downloadPath + " to copy from S3 to cache.";
-                s_logger.error(errMsg);
-                return new CopyCmdAnswer(errMsg);
-            } else {
+            if (downloadDirectory.exists()) {
                 s_logger.debug("Directory " + downloadPath + " already exists");
+            } else {
+                if (!downloadDirectory.mkdirs()) {
+                    final String errMsg = "Unable to create directory " + downloadPath + " to copy from S3 to cache.";
+                    s_logger.error(errMsg);
+                    return new CopyCmdAnswer(errMsg);
+                }
             }
 
             File destFile = S3Utils.getFile(s3, s3.getBucketName(), srcData.getPath(), downloadDirectory, new FileNamingStrategy() {