How to Move a Shared Time Machine disk to another Mac?

Hi,
I have a network with three macs. Initially, I had a Time Machine disk connected via USB to Mac A. Mac A and Mac B used that disk for TM backups.
Now I have coupled the Time Machine disk (via Firewire if that matters) to Mac C.
Mac B can't find the Time Machine disk anymore (as well as Mac A I guess), although the TM disk itself has still the same name. When I explicitly open the TM disk on Mac C in the Finder on Mac B, Mac B does not recognise it as its original TM disk.
After I clicked Change Disk in the Time Machine preferences on Mac B, I was able to reselect the TM disk. However, it doesn't see that there is already a long history present from Mac B and Time Machine plans to back up from scratch.
How can I tell Mac A and Mac B that the TM disk that is now connected to Mac C is still the same disk?
Thanks a lot for your help.

I want to do the same thing but i have a BW database (SAP) and i want to move the datafile form one mount poitn to another due to space constraint, but i want to use BR*TOOLS utility to do this, so can anyone help me out on this on how to do this, what are the precaution need to be undertaken.
Jafar

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