Switch wireless drive to connected directly through USB

Hello, hoping someone has a clue as to how to accomplish this:
I have a USB drive which I connected to my iMac and shared wirelessly to backup my MacBook Pro.
After several weeks of pain I decided to connect the drive directly to the MacBook.
TM will not recognize it. There is a MacBookPro.sparsebundle image in the drive that if I double click will mount the drive that the MacBook used to backup.
Great! I can even see my older backups there, half the battle won.
The problem: I can't get TM to recognize this disc as the one it was backing to before, even though it allows me to go into TM to recover backups!!!
Is there a way to get TM to recognize this disc and use to to continue backing up and not have to create a whole new backup branch?
Thanks.

sixschlitzes wrote:
Does anybody know if this is possible (i.e. will the TC back up an external hard drive that is permanently attached to it,
No, sorry, Time Machine cannot back up from a network location.
Does anybody have other suggestions (without having to buy any more gear) for storage/back-up that don't require that I plug that external HD to a computer every time I want to access the data?
The 3rd-party apps CarbonCopyCloner and ChronoSync (and probably others) can back up from a network location.

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