Re-installed OS X Server who to re-use clients Time Machine Backups?

Hi all!
For some reason one of my disks in my Mac Mini Server stopped working. So I had to re-install OS X Server.
My client, a MacBook Pro, did its backup towards my Mac Mini Server OS X Server. Now I am curious about if OS X Server is able to re-use that Time Machine backup so that my MacBook Pro client can continue to backup to that Time Machine "file"?
Anyone experienced this?
Regards,
Andreas

If you have not modified your MacBook Pro, you should be able to carry on using the Time Machine backup in your Mac mini Server without any problem. Just set up your MacBook Pro to make backups in your Mac mini Server, and your existing backup should be used without any problem

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