Need to change permissions if moving backup disk to Server?

I have a Time Machine backup disk that's been directly connected to a client machine. There is much free space still left on that drive and we're retiring the client. I'd like to move that backup drive to our OS X Server machine and have it backup a few other clients that connect to it.
I understand there's difficulty in directly moving a backup drive to a server and having TM backups continue, incrementally, as usual.
I'm not so interested in accomplishing that as I am making insuring the integrity of future backups. What concerns me the most is that on the old client the drive's owner was jill and after moving it to our server it's owner is jeff (whom happens to be logged into the server right now). BUT, all our shared drives are owned by localadmin as required during the LDAP/Open Directory setup that I can't fully remember right now.
should I change ownership of this drive? Make it a Share Point in Server Admin? If so what happens to that old Backups.packupd folder and it's contents. Could they still be used to recover files from Jill's old account?
Sorry for the confusion...

Just get the new machine? If so, which option did you use to migrate? Is the old machine a PPC and the new one an ICBM (Intel-chip-based Mac)? If a new machine, you might reconsider how you did things, restore the new machine to factory specs, and start over. See http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1872713 for starters.

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Cant change permissions of backup disc

how can i remove all the permissions of my backup disc without deleting the data on the disc ???
so that i can restore to an older time-machine backup.
i tried several solutions , but non of them worked. near the icon of the external disc there is a closed lock . also if i trey to change permissions via info , they wont change .
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john merlin wrote:
the thing is that i lost everything on my internal disc. and wen i tried to restore from a backup i had no longer privileges on that disc.
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