About to upgrade my Macbook hard drive - what steps to ensure TM works?

I'm about to upgrade my 100Gb hard drive in my Macbook to a 320Gb drive and I was planning to use either Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper to clone my existing drive to my new drive.
Couple of questions:-
Will TM continue to work seamlessly or are there some tweaks I will need to do to get it to continue to work.
With the increase in size of my Macbook drive I probably need to increase the size of my TM drive for backup as well - can I just clone my current TM drive to a larger capacity drive or will there be tweaks required.
Many thanks
Mike

Mike,
If you have a good Time Machine backup, you can just use that. You would install the new drive, boot to the Leopard install disk, then use the "Restore From a Time Machine Backup" utility. This restores your entire installation from the Time Machine backup of your choosing. Time Machine would then continue with the same backup where it left off.
Kappy will not agree with this, because he has not had the same success as I with Time Machine. For me, it has worked flawlessly, and I have used the above method several times to go from one machine to another, or to a new drive on the same machine.
I do recommend that you take a few precautions prior to trusting your Time Machine backup, however. First, I would verify the Time Machine volume with Disk Utility, to make sure there are no disk errors. Then, I would make a final backup and monitor it carefully. Open /Applications/Utilities/Console. In the Sidebar, under "Log Database Queries," select "All Messages." Then type "backupd" into the search field. Finally, choose "Backup Now" from the Time Machine menu.
Watch the progress of the backup in the Console window, and look for the presence of any potential errors. If nothing seems out of the ordinary, your backup should be safe to use.
Scott

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