diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/repositories/blobstore/BlobStoreRepository.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/repositories/blobstore/BlobStoreRepository.java
index 797a77cbd87a0..f11f4cec9291d 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/repositories/blobstore/BlobStoreRepository.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/repositories/blobstore/BlobStoreRepository.java
@@ -1053,41 +1053,6 @@ protected void finalize(final List<SnapshotFiles> snapshots,
             }
         }
 
-        /**
-         * Generates blob name
-         *
-         * @param generation the blob number
-         * @return the blob name
-         */
-        protected String fileNameFromGeneration(long generation) {
-            return DATA_BLOB_PREFIX + Long.toString(generation, Character.MAX_RADIX);
-        }
-
-        /**
-         * Finds the next available blob number
-         *
-         * @param blobs list of blobs in the repository
-         * @return next available blob number
-         */
-        protected long findLatestFileNameGeneration(Map<String, BlobMetaData> blobs) {
-            long generation = -1;
-            for (String name : blobs.keySet()) {
-                if (!name.startsWith(DATA_BLOB_PREFIX)) {
-                    continue;
-                }
-                name = canonicalName(name);
-                try {
-                    long currentGen = Long.parseLong(name.substring(DATA_BLOB_PREFIX.length()), Character.MAX_RADIX);
-                    if (currentGen > generation) {
-                        generation = currentGen;
-                    }
-                } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
-                    logger.warn("file [{}] does not conform to the '{}' schema", name, DATA_BLOB_PREFIX);
-                }
-            }
-            return generation;
-        }
-
         /**
          * Loads all available snapshots in the repository
          *
@@ -1180,7 +1145,6 @@ public void snapshot(final IndexCommit snapshotIndexCommit) {
                 throw new IndexShardSnapshotFailedException(shardId, "failed to list blobs", e);
             }
 
-            long generation = findLatestFileNameGeneration(blobs);
             Tuple<BlobStoreIndexShardSnapshots, Integer> tuple = buildBlobStoreIndexShardSnapshots(blobs);
             BlobStoreIndexShardSnapshots snapshots = tuple.v1();
             int fileListGeneration = tuple.v2();
@@ -1248,7 +1212,7 @@ public void snapshot(final IndexCommit snapshotIndexCommit) {
                         indexIncrementalSize += md.length();
                         // create a new FileInfo
                         BlobStoreIndexShardSnapshot.FileInfo snapshotFileInfo =
-                            new BlobStoreIndexShardSnapshot.FileInfo(fileNameFromGeneration(++generation), md, chunkSize());
+                            new BlobStoreIndexShardSnapshot.FileInfo(DATA_BLOB_PREFIX + UUIDs.randomBase64UUID(), md, chunkSize());
                         indexCommitPointFiles.add(snapshotFileInfo);
                         filesToSnapshot.add(snapshotFileInfo);
                     } else {