Time Capsule useless if you lose your Mac...?

Hi,
I've just had my logic board replaced by the good people at Apple. When I started up my MB Pro I went to back up to my Time Capsule as usual and it wouldn't see the backups. It wanted to start from scratch as it does the first time you use TC. This actually turned out to be not too much of a problem because my hard drive is completely in tact although it will be a problem if I've since wiped or lost some files. I called Apple and they said it wont recognise your machine because of the change of logic board.
This got me to thinking after I'd hung up with them... What if I'd lost my machine and bought a new one????? As that would have a different logic board, I'm wondering how on earth you get your old data into your new machine? Or, am I missing something..?
Thanks for your thoughts and experiences.
Best,
Marcus.

For that purpose you would want to use Migration Assistant, located under Applications/Utilities. And I just ran Migration Assistant and it had an option to transfer files and settings from Time Machine to the Mac, but like you say, since they replaced the logic board the Migration Assistant will probably not allow you to use that old Time Machine backup.

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