diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index f90822d6cb..55a56f1dbe 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
 * Make sure all key used as input for the cache key hash are
   bytes and not unicode. GitLab issue #520. Thanks to TheOneValen
   @TheOneValen for the report.
+* Ignore document stub from the index mirror. GitLab issue
+  #520. Thanks to TheOneValen @TheOneValen for the report.
 
 3.1.6 (2018-10-09)
 ==================
diff --git a/docs/releases/3.1.7.rst b/docs/releases/3.1.7.rst
index 7c6db16575..bbc8eca10b 100644
--- a/docs/releases/3.1.7.rst
+++ b/docs/releases/3.1.7.rst
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ Changes
 * Make sure all key used as input for the cache key hash are
   bytes and not unicode. GitLab issue #520. Thanks to TheOneValen
   @TheOneValen for the report.
+* Ignore document stub from the index mirror. GitLab issue
+  #520. Thanks to TheOneValen @TheOneValen for the report.
 
 
 Removals
diff --git a/mayan/apps/mirroring/filesystems.py b/mayan/apps/mirroring/filesystems.py
index 51b7d45e81..0a42e788ab 100644
--- a/mayan/apps/mirroring/filesystems.py
+++ b/mayan/apps/mirroring/filesystems.py
@@ -80,7 +80,9 @@ class IndexFilesystem(Operations):
                     if access_only:
                         return True
                     else:
-                        return Document.objects.get(pk=document_pk)
+                        return Document.objects.get(
+                            is_stub=False, pk=document_pk
+                        )
 
             for count, part in enumerate(parts[1:]):
                 try:
@@ -93,7 +95,9 @@ class IndexFilesystem(Operations):
                     else:
                         try:
                             if node.index_template_node.link_documents:
-                                document = node.documents.get(label=part)
+                                document = node.documents.get(
+                                    is_stub=False, label=part
+                                )
                                 logger.debug(
                                     'path %s is a valid file path', path
                                 )
@@ -203,7 +207,7 @@ class IndexFilesystem(Operations):
 
         # Documents
         if node.index_template_node.link_documents:
-            queryset = node.documents.values('label').exclude(
+            queryset = node.documents.filter(is_stub=False).values('label').exclude(
                 label__contains='/'
             )
 
diff --git a/mayan/apps/mirroring/tests/test_filesystems.py b/mayan/apps/mirroring/tests/test_filesystems.py
index 7ccafec4c3..1f9dad3220 100644
--- a/mayan/apps/mirroring/tests/test_filesystems.py
+++ b/mayan/apps/mirroring/tests/test_filesystems.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ from fuse import FuseOSError
 from django.test import override_settings
 
 from common.tests import BaseTestCase
+from documents.models import Document
 from documents.tests import DocumentTestMixin
 
 from document_indexing.tests import DocumentIndexingTestMixin
@@ -133,3 +134,26 @@ class IndexFilesystemTestCase(DocumentIndexingTestMixin, DocumentTestMixin, Base
         self.assertEqual(
             list(index_filesystem.readdir('/', ''))[2:], []
         )
+
+    def test_ignore_stub_documents(self):
+        self._create_index()
+
+        self.index.node_templates.create(
+            parent=self.index.template_root, expression=TEST_NODE_EXPRESSION,
+            link_documents=True
+        )
+
+        self.document = Document.objects.create(
+            document_type=self.document_type, label='document_stub'
+        )
+        index_filesystem = IndexFilesystem(index_slug=self.index.slug)
+        self.index.rebuild()
+
+        self.assertEqual(
+            list(
+                index_filesystem.readdir(
+                    '/{}'.format(TEST_NODE_EXPRESSION), ''
+                )
+            )[2:], []
+           )
+