Migrating from a G4 to Mac Pro

I have been running Time Machine for over a year now on my current system, a G4 Quicksilver.
I just purchased a Mac Pro and was wondering if I can continue to use my Time Machine drive on the new system? I assume I will probably never be able to restore from a older backup date (pre-Mac Pro) but will there be any other issues?

you can use Migration Assistant to migrate the data from the TM backups of your G4 to the MP.
but see this link about using MA when migrating from PPC to intel.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=435350&tstart=0
After migration that you'll have to start a new TM backup sequence for the new computer. you will have access to your old backups but only in browse mode. to enter browse mode control-click on Tm in the dock and select 'browse other TM disks". also you might have to reformat the TM drive for use with the MP. TM drive should be formatted with GUID partition scheme for intel macs and APM for PPC ones. it may work without reformatting but you may encounter problems later. I would suggest you reformat the TM drive after migrating your data.

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