diff --git a/services/secondary-storage/controller/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/secondarystorage/SecondaryStorageManagerImpl.java b/services/secondary-storage/controller/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/secondarystorage/SecondaryStorageManagerImpl.java
index 5698632249d..66aab2a39c8 100644
--- a/services/secondary-storage/controller/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/secondarystorage/SecondaryStorageManagerImpl.java
+++ b/services/secondary-storage/controller/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/secondarystorage/SecondaryStorageManagerImpl.java
@@ -1247,6 +1247,10 @@ public class SecondaryStorageManagerImpl extends ManagerBase implements Secondar
     protected void addSecondaryStorageServerAddressToBuffer(StringBuilder buffer, List<DataStore> dataStores, String vmName) {
         List<String> addresses = new ArrayList<>();
         for (DataStore dataStore: dataStores) {
+            // S3 and other object stores may not have a URL, so better to skip them
+            if (dataStore == null || dataStore.getTO() == null || dataStore.getTO().getUrl() == null) {
+                continue;
+            }
             String url = dataStore.getTO().getUrl();
             String[] urlArray = url.split("/");