Backups.backupdb is not showing up in Migration Assistant

I have my external disk with my time machine backups attached to my iMac, I can browse the disk and see the time machine backups for my iMac and my laptop:
* Backups.backupdb (This is my iMac backup)
* MacBookAir (This is my laptop backup - but it's in a dmg format)
I've just erasd my iMac disk as I want a fresh install - but I want to migrate my settings, however when I run Migration Assistant, Backups.backupdb doesn't show up as an option. The only option is the MacBookAir backup.
Any ideas how I can get the Backups.backupdb to show up as an option to restore from?
Thanks

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Carlos. wrote:
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