Can't recover Final Cut Pro project from backup.

I recently got a new mac and had backed up all my saved data onto an external hard drive with my old one.  When I was setting up my new mac I recovered it from an existing backup (my old computer) and everything seemed to be back to normal.  On my old computer I was in the process of making a video with Final Cut Pro X and made sure that it was backed up onto the external hard drive. On my new mac when I tried to recover it, it appeared as a file that couldn't be opened with FCP. Within FCP it had the video but all of the files were missing.  I started to relink all of the files but there has to be a faster way. 
How do I recover this file?  Is there a way to just import the backup without having to ever relink files?
Thanks.

Are these systems backups (e.g., Time Machine)  or FCP X backups? What version of FCPX and ware they the same on both machines>
Russ

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