Will SL TimeMachine backups work OK with Lion?

After 2 years of intensive use and abuse, I am going to erase my 2008 iMac's hard drive running Snow Leopard and install Lion to get my computer back to as near as possible its "as new" condition.
I have done a final TimeMachine backup of my Mac running Snow Leopard.
After the complete erasure and installation of Lion will my TM backups work OK and seemlessly or is there anything I need to be aware of?

Ian R. Brown wrote:
I just want to check that I will be able to access my old SL TM backups from my "new" Lion powered iMac?
Yes, with a caveat:
If you don't do a full restore, or use Setup Assistant or Migration Assistant, to put your data back, the erased HD will be treated as a different one, and the next backup will be a full one, of everything on the drive. That will, of course, take a lot of space. Worse, the old backups will be treated as being on a different HD that's no longer available, and you'll need the procedure in #E3 of Time Machine - Troubleshooting to see them.
But, effective with Lion, you can probably force Time Machine to have the "new" disk "associated" with the old backups. Then it will do only an incremental backup, of what's new or changed. Note that if you use different user account short names, those accounts will be backed-up in full. Similarly, if you rename or reorganize folders, the new/renamed/moved ones will be backed-up in full.
See #B6 in the same link for instructions on "associating" the erased drive with the old backups.

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