How to connect time machine to newly migrated MBP

Just migrated to a newer MBP and want to have it appear as the same machine to time machine.  This would keep all my TM history intact and not begin again with a full backup.  Any ideas?

Hi Steve
yeah, it didn't like the "inheritbackup" command.  Errored out with:
Failed to attach disk image. (error 35)
Any thoughts?
Thanks!

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