Time machine fails to restore files to new mac

This is really frustrating.  I've probably used TM 8-10 times to upgrade hard drives, upgrade macs, etc.  It's always worked flawlessly.
Wednesday I received my new MB Pro (a maxed out late 2013 that MacMall has been clearing out at a great price).  So in preparation for delivery I made sure my TM backup was current and ready to go.  So connected the backup drive to the new MBP and fired it up.  As usual, I selected the option to "restore from Time Machine."  I selected the disk and back and let it run.  The progress bar said it was going to be about 1-1/2 hrs so I went off to do other things.
When I returned the restore had finished and I was looking at exactly the login screen from my old MBP.  I was ready to go, or so I thought.  The first thing I noticed that the dock wasn't right - it wasn't mine, just the generic one you see on a new Mac.  Checked my applications and it was soon apparent that none of my apps were listed - no Office, Parallels, or a dozen (or more) 3rd-party apps.  Zip. Zero. Nada.
Checking more, my Documents folder was empty, along with my iTunes library.   So I launched Disk Utility and the firs thing I noticed was that there was only 10 GB on the new drive, yet the old drive (and the backup file) is over 630 GB! 
I've never seen this before, and so far Apple support doesn't have any answers.

We've tried quite a bit - here's a summary.  
Since I tried first with MA, we decided to wipe the HD and start over, using Setup Assistant.   I booted into Recovery, used Disk Utility to wipe the disk, then download and install a clean Yosemite.  This time I used Setup Assistant when it rebooted, and selected the TM restore.  The SA window where you select what to install showed about 500 GB, so I selected everything.  SA ran for a little over an hour.  When it finished and rebooted I had my user accounts and setting, but again no apps or files.  Instead of 500 GB I had a little over 10 on the drive.  Basically same as the first try with MA.
By now I'm into upper-tier Apple techs.  Next I wiped the backup files and created a brand new one.  I have an "emergency" admin account so this time we logged into that one and launched MA.  This time we selected everything except this emergency account.  Again, MA ran for over an hour, but as before, nothing transferred. 
With my tech on remote access we browsed the folders of the backup and were satisfied everything was in the backup.  At this point he advised me that - worst case - I could always drag-and-drop everything to the new drive though it would leave more cleanup than a restore. 
I did notice something odd about the backup when I used SA & MA.  When I got to the window to select the backup I had two items - one for about 450 GB and the other was smaller at about 100.  Since the larger one had all the accounts I used that one.  With the help of the tech I finally figured out this was probably caused by my small eDrive partition. 
This time I updated TM prefs to make sure everything was excluded except the main partition.  Wiped the backup drive and created a new one.  When finished I plugged the drive into the new MBP and launched MA.  This time I only saw one backup to select, so did that and selected everything to migrate.  According to MA that should be about 500 GB.   MA ran for about an hour, but again nothing transferred except my account info.
Lastly (for now), I wiped the MBP drive, installed a fresh Yosemite, and this time used Setup Assistant to migrate.  Selected all 500GB and it ran for a little over an hour.   Again, nothing transferred except accounts.  In total, I had about 11 GB on the new drive instead of the expected 500+.
sorry for the long post. 

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    2/10/2014 6:08:25.166 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[246]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart[401]) Exited with code: 1
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    2/10/2014 6:08:28.337 am WindowServer[95]: Display 0x4280480 captured by conn 0xcc03
    2/10/2014 6:08:29.211 am WindowServer[95]: CGXOrderWindowList: Invalid window 85 (index 0/1)
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    2/10/2014 6:08:40.578 am quicklookd[408]: Warning: Cache image returned by the server has size range covering all valid image sizes. Binding: VariantBinding [0x203] flags: 0x8 binding: FileInfoBinding [0x103] - extension: png, UTI: public.png, fileType: ???? request size:64 scale: 1
    2/10/2014 6:08:42.209 am WindowServer[95]: disable_update_likely_unbalanced: UI updates still disabled by application "Finder" after 15.00 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds). Likely an unbalanced disableUpdate call.
    2/10/2014 6:08:42.209 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const: conn 0xcc03 legacy 1
    2/10/2014 6:08:42.211 am Finder[279]: Backtrace (at 1618.93):
    2/10/2014 6:08:42.211 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const:  0   CoreGraphics                        0x000000010d02b379 CGSBacktraceCreate + 59
    2/10/2014 6:08:42.211 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const:  1   CoreGraphics                        0x000000010d0da62c _ZN16CGSUpdateManager21disable_update_legacyEv + 78
    2/10/2014 6:08:42.211 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const:  2   CoreGraphics                        0x000000010d0da5d7 CGSDisableUpdate + 35
    2/10/2014 6:08:42.211 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const:  3   Finder                              0x0000000107b66aae Finder + 1608366
    2/10/2014 6:08:42.211 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const:  4   Finder                              0x0000000107b66224 Finder + 1606180
    2/10/2014 6:08:42.211 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const:  5   CoreFoundation                      0x000000010cbb7e0c __CFNOTIFICATIONCENTER_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_AN_OBSERVER__ + 12
    2/10/2014 6:08:42.211 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const:  6   CoreFoundation                      0x000000010cb79f79 ____CFXNotificationPostToken_block_invoke + 137
    2/10/2014 6:08:42.211 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const:  7   CoreFoundation                      0x000000010cb1a48c __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_BLOCK__ + 12
    2/10/2014 6:08:42.211 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const:  8   CoreFoundation                      0x000000010cb0bae5 __CFRunLoopDoBlocks + 341
    2/10/2014 6:08:42.211 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const:  9   CoreFoundation                      0x000000010cb0b86e __CFRunLoopRun + 1982
    2/10/2014 6:08:42.211 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const:  10  CoreFoundation                      0x000000010cb0ae75 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 309
    2/10/2014 6:08:42.211 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const:  11  HIToolbox                           0x000000010a829a0d RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 226
    2/10/2014 6:08:42.211 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const:  12  HIToolbox                           0x000000010a8297b7 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 479
    2/10/2014 6:08:42.211 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const:  13  HIToolbox                           0x000000010a8295bc _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 65
    2/10/2014 6:08:42.211 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const:  14  AppKit                              0x000000010b7c224e _DPSNextEvent + 1434
    2/10/2014 6:08:42.211 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const:  15  AppKit                              0x000000010b7c189b -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 122
    2/10/2014 6:08:42.212 am Finder[279]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const:  16  AppKit                              0x000000010b7b599c -[NSApplication run] + 553
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    2/10/2014 6:09:35.517 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[246]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
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    2/10/2014 6:09:45.541 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[246]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
         "Have you tried restoring at the folder level? so that all files in the folder are restored.   As it is an incremental backup - also wait until you hear the backup drive stop spinning - as it has to find the physical files - pointing to them."
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    2/10/2014 6:28:38.742 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[187]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
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    2/10/2014 6:28:46.778 am WindowServer[122]: Display 0x4280482 captured by conn 0xe80b
    2/10/2014 6:28:48.761 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[187]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart[1000]) Exited with code: 1
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    2/10/2014 6:29:00.605 am Finder[206]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const:  0   CoreGraphics                        0x0000000108c65379 CGSBacktraceCreate + 59
    2/10/2014 6:29:00.606 am Finder[206]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const:  1   CoreGraphics                        0x0000000108d1462c _ZN16CGSUpdateManager21disable_update_legacyEv + 78
    2/10/2014 6:29:00.606 am Finder[206]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const:  2   CoreGraphics                        0x0000000108d145d7 CGSDisableUpdate + 35
    2/10/2014 6:29:00.606 am Finder[206]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const:  3   Finder                              0x000000010377faae Finder + 1608366
    2/10/2014 6:29:00.606 am Finder[206]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const:  4   Finder                              0x000000010377f224 Finder + 1606180
    2/10/2014 6:29:00.607 am Finder[206]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const:  5   CoreFoundation                      0x00000001087f7e0c __CFNOTIFICATIONCENTER_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_AN_OBSERVER__ + 12
    2/10/2014 6:29:00.607 am Finder[206]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const:  6   CoreFoundation                      0x00000001087b9f79 ____CFXNotificationPostToken_block_invoke + 137
    2/10/2014 6:29:00.607 am Finder[206]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const:  7   CoreFoundation                      0x000000010875a48c __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_BLOCK__ + 12
    2/10/2014 6:29:00.608 am Finder[206]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const:  8   CoreFoundation                      0x000000010874bae5 __CFRunLoopDoBlocks + 341
    2/10/2014 6:29:00.608 am Finder[206]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const:  9   CoreFoundation                      0x000000010874b86e __CFRunLoopRun + 1982
    2/10/2014 6:29:00.608 am Finder[206]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const:  10  CoreFoundation                      0x000000010874ae75 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 309
    2/10/2014 6:29:00.608 am Finder[206]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const:  11  HIToolbox                           0x000000010645ea0d RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 226
    2/10/2014 6:29:00.609 am Finder[206]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const:  12  HIToolbox                           0x000000010645e7b7 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 479
    2/10/2014 6:29:00.609 am Finder[206]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const:  13  HIToolbox                           0x000000010645e5bc _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 65
    2/10/2014 6:29:00.609 am Finder[206]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const:  14  AppKit                              0x00000001073fd24e _DPSNextEvent + 1434
    2/10/2014 6:29:00.609 am Finder[206]: void CGSUpdateManager::log() const:  15  AppKit                              0x00000001073fc89b -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 122
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    2/10/2014 6:29:24.301 am MouseLocatorAgent[327]: CGSUnlockWindowBits: Invalid window 0x0
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    2/10/2014 6:29:24.301 am MouseLocatorAgent[327]: CGSUnlockWindowBits: Invalid window 0x0
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    2/10/2014 6:29:28.843 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[187]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
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    2/10/2014 6:29:38.861 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[187]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart[1024]) Exited with code: 1
    2/10/2014 6:29:38.861 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[187]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
    2/10/2014 6:29:48.879 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[187]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart[1027]) Exited with code: 1
    2/10/2014 6:29:48.879 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[187]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
    2/10/2014 6:29:52.483 am com.apple.backupd[907]: Copied 1776 items (176.1 MB) from volume Macintosh HD iMac 21.5-inch, Late 2013. Linked 13206.
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    2/10/2014 6:29:58.897 am com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[187]: (com.qbix.CalendarStart) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
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